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Total Factor Productivity Level, 1998

1998, 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, 1998 covers 120 countries. Barbados is highest, at 1.4147; Nigeria is lowest, at 0.1127. The middle country reads 0.6588. Against 1997, 119 values changed (36 up, 83 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Factor Productivity Level · Data for 1998

HighestBarbados

1.4147

LowestNigeria

0.1127

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, 1998, 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, 1998: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
BarbadosBRBCaribbean1.4147
MacauMACEastern Asia1.2410
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.1923
BulgariaBGREastern Europe1.1747
BelgiumBELWestern Europe1.1648
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.1478
FranceFRAWestern Europe1.1403
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia1.1239
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.1048
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa1.0951
SpainESPSouthern Europe1.0535
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.0499
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe1.0434
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.0291
United StatesUSANorthern America1.0000
ItalyITASouthern Europe0.9967
NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.9899
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa0.9824
GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.9747
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.9624
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.9577
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia0.9161
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.9160
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.9152
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.9080

02In 1998

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Barbados1.4147
  2. Macau1.2410
  3. Luxembourg1.1923
  4. Bulgaria1.1747
  5. Belgium1.1648

Lowest

  1. Nigeria0.1127
  2. Zambia0.1601
  3. Burundi0.1611
  4. Angola0.1804
  5. Armenia0.2172

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.6588. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031997 → 1998

Since 1997

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 120 in both
  • 36 · 83rose · 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 1998.

  • 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) (1998). Total Factor Productivity Level, 1998 [data set], describing 1998. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/total-factor-productivity/1998

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