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Total Factor Productivity Level, 1996

1996, 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, 1996 covers 120 countries. Barbados is highest, at 1.74577; Nigeria is lowest, at 0.12363. The middle country reads 0.67272. Against 1995, 119 values changed (54 up, 65 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Factor Productivity Level · Data for 1996

HighestBarbados

1.74577

LowestNigeria

0.12363

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, 1996, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 120 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Factor Productivity Level, 1996: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
BarbadosBRBCaribbean1.74577
BulgariaBGREastern Europe1.63673
MacauMACEastern Asia1.35938
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.14124
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa1.14004
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa1.11565
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.10697
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia1.10647
BelgiumBELWestern Europe1.09119
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa1.05620
FranceFRAWestern Europe1.04928
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa1.04715
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.03956
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.03138
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.01619
United StatesUSANorthern America1.00000
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.99906
SpainESPSouthern Europe0.99390
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.95697
ItalyITASouthern Europe0.94538
GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.93255
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.92559
CanadaCANNorthern America0.91823
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia0.91822
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.90252

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Barbados1.74577
  2. Bulgaria1.63673
  3. Macau1.35938
  4. Türkiye1.14124
  5. Eswatini1.14004

Lowest

  1. Nigeria0.12363
  2. Zambia0.15283
  3. Angola0.20103
  4. Burundi0.20402
  5. Tajikistan0.21480

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.67272. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 120 in both
  • 54 · 65rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

  • Iraq0.37598 → 0.55308+0.17710
  • Argentina0.70993 → 0.84412+0.13419
  • Brazil0.70424 → 0.81410+0.10986
  • Iran0.64781 → 0.72404+0.07622
  • Egypt0.97612 → 1.04715+0.07103

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 1996.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 120 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) (1996). Total Factor Productivity Level, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/total-factor-productivity/1996

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