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Total Factor Productivity Level, 2004

2004, 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, 2004 covers 120 countries. Macau is highest, at 1.7287; Burundi is lowest, at 0.1432. The middle country reads 0.6379. Against 2003, 119 values changed (54 up, 65 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Factor Productivity Level · Data for 2004

HighestMacau

1.7287

LowestBurundi

0.1432

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, 2004, 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, 2004: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
MacauMACEastern Asia1.7287
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.3960
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.3218
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.1602
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa1.1560
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.1473
BelgiumBELWestern Europe1.1312
FranceFRAWestern Europe1.1204
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia1.0495
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.0447
SwedenSWENorthern Europe1.0428
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.0401
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia1.0271
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe1.0257
BulgariaBGREastern Europe1.0255
GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.0232
IranIRNSouthern Asia1.0212
United StatesUSANorthern America1.0000
SpainESPSouthern Europe0.9981
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.9918
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.9615
Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean0.9559
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia0.9524
CanadaCANNorthern America0.9449
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.9337

02In 2004

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Macau1.7287
  2. Ireland1.3960
  3. Norway1.3218
  4. Netherlands1.1602
  5. Mauritius1.1560

Lowest

  1. Burundi0.1432
  2. Angola0.2097
  3. Zimbabwe0.2176
  4. Nigeria0.2278
  5. Mongolia0.2407

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.6379. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032003 → 2004

Since 2003

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 120 in both
  • 54 · 65rose · 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 2004.

  • 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) (2004). Total Factor Productivity Level, 2004 [data set], describing 2004. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/total-factor-productivity/2004

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