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Total Factor Productivity Level, 2015

2015, 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, 2015 covers 120 countries. Macau is highest, at 1.41301; Burundi is lowest, at 0.21398. The middle country reads 0.64355. Against 2014, 119 values changed (62 up, 57 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Factor Productivity Level · Data for 2015

HighestMacau

1.41301

LowestBurundi

0.21398

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, 2015, 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, 2015: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
MacauMACEastern Asia1.41301
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.19812
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa1.18689
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa1.11004
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.05883
United StatesUSANorthern America1.00000
GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.98190
FranceFRAWestern Europe0.96212
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.95565
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.95368
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.94668
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia0.92868
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.92132
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.91784
BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.91580
PolandPOLEastern Europe0.90213
PanamaPANCentral America0.90140
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.89662
Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean0.89634
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.86745
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand0.85006
MaltaMLTSouthern Europe0.84401
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia0.84212
ChileCHLSouth America0.83896
SpainESPSouthern Europe0.83811

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Macau1.41301
  2. Ireland1.19812
  3. Egypt1.18689
  4. Mauritius1.11004
  5. Norway1.05883

Lowest

  1. Burundi0.21398
  2. Tajikistan0.21521
  3. Central African Republic0.22106
  4. Niger0.26246
  5. Mozambique0.28808

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.64355. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 120 in both
  • 62 · 57rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Macau2.14052 → 1.41301−0.72751
  • Kuwait1.11159 → 0.73036−0.38123
  • Venezuela0.61483 → 0.36934−0.24548
  • Qatar0.80379 → 0.59798−0.20580
  • Kyrgyzstan0.65299 → 0.45670−0.19629

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 2015.

  • 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) (2015). Total Factor Productivity Level, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/total-factor-productivity/2015

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