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Total Factor Productivity Level, 2008

2008, 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, 2008 covers 120 countries. Macau is highest, at 1.63932; Burundi is lowest, at 0.15893. The middle country reads 0.67360. Against 2007, 119 values changed (44 up, 75 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Factor Productivity Level · Data for 2008

HighestMacau

1.63932

LowestBurundi

0.15893

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, 2008, 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, 2008: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
MacauMACEastern Asia1.63932
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.47553
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia1.36929
IranIRNSouthern Asia1.25551
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.16257
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.12712
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa1.09966
Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean1.06548
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.03300
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa1.02562
FranceFRAWestern Europe1.02486
GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.00912
BelgiumBELWestern Europe1.00615
United StatesUSANorthern America1.00000
QatarQATWestern Asia0.99539
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.98814
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.98247
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia0.96424
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.95389
CanadaCANNorthern America0.93818
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.92846
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.92713
PanamaPANCentral America0.92361
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.91520
VenezuelaVENSouth America0.91478

02In 2008

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Macau1.63932
  2. Norway1.47553
  3. Kuwait1.36929
  4. Iran1.25551
  5. Ireland1.16257

Lowest

  1. Burundi0.15893
  2. Zimbabwe0.18971
  3. Niger0.26075
  4. Mongolia0.30911
  5. Togo0.31320

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.67360. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 120 in both
  • 44 · 75rose · 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 2008.

  • 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) (2008). Total Factor Productivity Level, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/total-factor-productivity/2008

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