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Total Factor Productivity Level, 1971

1971, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total factor productivity measures how much output an economy gets from its capital, its workers and their schooling, compared with the United States in the same year. A level of 0.5 means the country produces about half what the US would with the same inputs. It is the Penn World Table's best-known measure, and the standard way economists compare how efficiently countries use what they have.

Total Factor Productivity Level, 1971 covers 81 countries. Egypt is highest, at 1.97412; China is lowest, at 0.21680. The middle country reads 0.85214. Against 1970, 80 values changed (42 up, 38 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Factor Productivity Level · Data for 1971

HighestEgypt

1.97412

LowestChina

0.21680

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Total Factor Productivity Level, 1971, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 81 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Factor Productivity Level, 1971: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa1.97412
BarbadosBRBCaribbean1.72626
Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean1.56150
EcuadorECUSouth America1.42559
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa1.39659
PortugalPRTSouthern Europe1.28934
MexicoMEXCentral America1.21271
VenezuelaVENSouth America1.12563
CanadaCANNorthern America1.09987
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.09938
PanamaPANCentral America1.05586
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa1.01925
GabonGABMiddle Africa1.01680
IcelandISLNorthern Europe1.01269
UruguayURYSouth America1.01268
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.00575
ChileCHLSouth America1.00514
United StatesUSANorthern America1.00000
Costa RicaCRICentral America0.99303
IranIRNSouthern Asia0.98531
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa0.98091
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.97102
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.94996
SpainESPSouthern Europe0.94943
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.94263

02In 1971

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Egypt1.97412
  2. Barbados1.72626
  3. Trinidad and Tobago1.56150
  4. Ecuador1.42559
  5. Mauritius1.39659

Lowest

  1. China0.21680
  2. Bolivia0.30326
  3. India0.35698
  4. Botswana0.37073
  5. South Korea0.37805

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.85214. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031970 → 1971

Since 1970

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 80values changed, of 81 in both
  • 42 · 38rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

  • Iceland0.90111 → 1.01269+0.11158
  • Norway0.61534 → 0.67380+0.05846
  • Malaysia0.46304 → 0.51749+0.05446
  • Chile0.95537 → 1.00514+0.04977
  • Cyprus0.65348 → 0.69619+0.04271

Fell most

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • One year of the 2025 release

    Every year in this series comes from GGDC’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 1971.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 81 countries has every column.

05The files

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Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) (1971). Total Factor Productivity Level, 1971 [data set], describing 1971. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/total-factor-productivity/1971

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