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Total Factor Productivity Level, 1974

1974, 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, 1974 covers 92 countries. Kuwait is highest, at 3.2975; China is lowest, at 0.2127. The middle country reads 0.8924. Against 1973, 80 values changed (66 up, 14 down), 11 countries joined.

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Total Factor Productivity Level · Data for 1974

HighestKuwait

3.2975

LowestChina

0.2127

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, 1974, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 92 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Factor Productivity Level, 1974: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia3.2975
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia2.4209
BulgariaBGREastern Europe2.4164
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa2.1627
Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean1.6797
IranIRNSouthern Asia1.4557
VenezuelaVENSouth America1.4027
IraqIRQWestern Asia1.3933
BarbadosBRBCaribbean1.3921
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa1.3397
GabonGABMiddle Africa1.3161
PortugalPRTSouthern Europe1.2879
MexicoMEXCentral America1.2763
QatarQATWestern Asia1.2600
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa1.1956
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.1474
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.1221
CanadaCANNorthern America1.0820
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.0777
IcelandISLNorthern Europe1.0570
EcuadorECUSouth America1.0543
FranceFRAWestern Europe1.0398
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa1.0396
SpainESPSouthern Europe1.0375
ItalyITASouthern Europe1.0364

02In 1974

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Kuwait3.2975
  2. Saudi Arabia2.4209
  3. Bulgaria2.4164
  4. Egypt2.1627
  5. Trinidad and Tobago1.6797

Lowest

  1. China0.2127
  2. Bolivia0.3484
  3. India0.3631
  4. Niger0.3834
  5. Botswana0.4109

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.8924. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031973 → 1974

Since 1973

  • +11 / −0countries joined / left
  • 80values changed, of 81 in both
  • 66 · 14rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Albania+ Bulgaria+ Bahrain+ Hungary+ Iraq+ Kuwait+ Poland+ Qatar+ Saudi Arabia+ Sudan

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 1974.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 92 countries has every column.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) (1974). Total Factor Productivity Level, 1974 [data set], describing 1974. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/total-factor-productivity/1974

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