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Total Factor Productivity Level, 2005

2005, 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, 2005 covers 120 countries. Macau is highest, at 1.6461; Zimbabwe is lowest, at 0.0656. The middle country reads 0.6549. Against 2004, 119 values changed (82 up, 37 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Factor Productivity Level · Data for 2005

HighestMacau

1.6461

LowestZimbabwe

0.0656

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, 2005, 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, 2005: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
MacauMACEastern Asia1.6461
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.4588
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.4195
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.1917
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.1348
IranIRNSouthern Asia1.1334
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia1.1114
BelgiumBELWestern Europe1.1093
FranceFRAWestern Europe1.1037
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa1.0968
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa1.0654
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.0631
GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.0393
SwedenSWENorthern Europe1.0387
PanamaPANCentral America1.0377
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia1.0348
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe1.0221
United StatesUSANorthern America1.0000
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.9938
Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean0.9874
SpainESPSouthern Europe0.9861
QatarQATWestern Asia0.9860
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia0.9768
CanadaCANNorthern America0.9671
BulgariaBGREastern Europe0.9668

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Macau1.6461
  2. Norway1.4588
  3. Ireland1.4195
  4. Netherlands1.1917
  5. United Kingdom1.1348

Lowest

  1. Zimbabwe0.0656
  2. Burundi0.1698
  3. Niger0.2503
  4. Mongolia0.2557
  5. Tajikistan0.2580

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.6549. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 120 in both
  • 82 · 37rose · 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 2005.

  • 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) (2005). Total Factor Productivity Level, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/total-factor-productivity/2005

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