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Total Factor Productivity Level, 1982

1982, 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, 1982 covers 105 countries. Bulgaria is highest, at 2.5634; China is lowest, at 0.1914. The middle country reads 0.8311. Against 1981, 104 values changed (48 up, 56 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Factor Productivity Level · Data for 1982

HighestBulgaria

2.5634

LowestChina

0.1914

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, 1982, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 105 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Factor Productivity Level, 1982: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
BulgariaBGREastern Europe2.5634
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa1.7039
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa1.5460
Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean1.5265
MexicoMEXCentral America1.4374
MaltaMLTSouthern Europe1.2972
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa1.2476
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa1.2308
MacauMACEastern Asia1.2211
ItalyITASouthern Europe1.1752
IcelandISLNorthern Europe1.1730
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.1524
BelgiumBELWestern Europe1.1481
FranceFRAWestern Europe1.1460
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia1.0918
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia1.0672
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia1.0650
PortugalPRTSouthern Europe1.0572
EcuadorECUSouth America1.0471
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.0444
CanadaCANNorthern America1.0433
SpainESPSouthern Europe1.0379
SenegalSENWestern Africa1.0357
NicaraguaNICCentral America1.0353
BarbadosBRBCaribbean1.0328

02In 1982

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Bulgaria2.5634
  2. Egypt1.7039
  3. Mauritius1.5460
  4. Trinidad and Tobago1.5265
  5. Mexico1.4374

Lowest

  1. China0.1914
  2. Burundi0.2753
  3. India0.2999
  4. Bolivia0.3626
  5. Mongolia0.3642

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.8311. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031981 → 1982

Since 1981

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 104values changed, of 105 in both
  • 48 · 56rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

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 1982.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 105 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) (1982). Total Factor Productivity Level, 1982 [data set], describing 1982. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/total-factor-productivity/1982

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