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Total Factor Productivity Level, 2006

2006, 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, 2006 covers 120 countries. Macau is highest, at 1.67254; Burundi is lowest, at 0.15350. The middle country reads 0.66721. Against 2005, 119 values changed (69 up, 50 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Factor Productivity Level · Data for 2006

HighestMacau

1.67254

LowestBurundi

0.15350

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, 2006, 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, 2006: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
MacauMACEastern Asia1.67254
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.46087
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.27756
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia1.20948
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.16493
IranIRNSouthern Asia1.16481
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa1.12605
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.11382
PanamaPANCentral America1.08615
FranceFRAWestern Europe1.07496
Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean1.06440
BelgiumBELWestern Europe1.04128
GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.02289
SwedenSWENorthern Europe1.01747
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia1.01194
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe1.01169
QatarQATWestern Asia1.00341
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.00004
United StatesUSANorthern America1.00000
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.98973
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa0.98859
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.97898
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia0.95734
SpainESPSouthern Europe0.95404
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia0.94641

02In 2006

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Macau1.67254
  2. Norway1.46087
  3. Ireland1.27756
  4. Kuwait1.20948
  5. Netherlands1.16493

Lowest

  1. Burundi0.15350
  2. Zimbabwe0.22118
  3. Niger0.25291
  4. Mongolia0.28285
  5. Tajikistan0.29655

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.66721. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 120 in both
  • 69 · 50rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

  • Togo0.28817 → 0.44977+0.16161
  • Zimbabwe0.06555 → 0.22118+0.15563
  • Sudan0.52592 → 0.62548+0.09956
  • Chile0.74553 → 0.84438+0.09885
  • Singapore0.85886 → 0.95734+0.09848

Fell most

  • Ireland1.41950 → 1.27756−0.14194
  • Eswatini1.06537 → 0.98859−0.07678
  • Belgium1.10928 → 1.04128−0.06800
  • Barbados0.78376 → 0.71936−0.06440
  • Latvia0.65093 → 0.58710−0.06383

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 2006.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 120 countries has every column.

05The files

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Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) (2006). Total Factor Productivity Level, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/total-factor-productivity/2006

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