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Total Factor Productivity Level, 2003

2003, 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, 2003 covers 120 countries. Macau is highest, at 1.50660; Burundi is lowest, at 0.14867. The middle country reads 0.64340. Against 2002, 119 values changed (47 up, 72 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Factor Productivity Level · Data for 2003

HighestMacau

1.50660

LowestBurundi

0.14867

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, 2003, 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, 2003: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
MacauMACEastern Asia1.50660
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.42827
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.33232
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.19814
FranceFRAWestern Europe1.19322
BelgiumBELWestern Europe1.17406
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa1.16595
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.15879
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.12031
BulgariaBGREastern Europe1.07600
SpainESPSouthern Europe1.04627
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia1.03898
GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.03489
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe1.03150
SwedenSWENorthern Europe1.01684
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.01534
AustriaAUTWestern Europe1.00064
United StatesUSANorthern America1.00000
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia0.98332
ItalyITASouthern Europe0.97004
IranIRNSouthern Asia0.96775
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.96366
Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean0.95779
CanadaCANNorthern America0.94899
PanamaPANCentral America0.93584

02In 2003

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Macau1.50660
  2. Ireland1.42827
  3. Norway1.33232
  4. Netherlands1.19814
  5. France1.19322

Lowest

  1. Burundi0.14867
  2. Angola0.17589
  3. Nigeria0.20688
  4. Tajikistan0.23772
  5. Mongolia0.24188

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.64340. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032002 → 2003

Since 2002

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 120 in both
  • 47 · 72rose · 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 2003.

  • 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) (2003). Total Factor Productivity Level, 2003 [data set], describing 2003. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/total-factor-productivity/2003

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