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Total Factor Productivity Level, 2016

2016, 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, 2016 covers 120 countries. Macau is highest, at 1.30332; Burundi is lowest, at 0.21566. The middle country reads 0.65079. Against 2015, 119 values changed (79 up, 40 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Factor Productivity Level · Data for 2016

HighestMacau

1.30332

LowestBurundi

0.21566

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, 2016, 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, 2016: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
MacauMACEastern Asia1.30332
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa1.20891
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa1.19512
SudanSDNNorthern Africa1.11575
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.08626
GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.01068
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.00763
United StatesUSANorthern America1.00000
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.97990
FranceFRAWestern Europe0.96907
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.96304
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.95115
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia0.92947
BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.92614
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.92367
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.92130
PolandPOLEastern Europe0.90335
IranIRNSouthern Asia0.90082
PanamaPANCentral America0.89591
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand0.87815
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.86782
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.86091
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe0.84781
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.84697
SpainESPSouthern Europe0.84624

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Macau1.30332
  2. Mauritius1.20891
  3. Egypt1.19512
  4. Sudan1.11575
  5. Ireland1.08626

Lowest

  1. Burundi0.21566
  2. Tajikistan0.22058
  3. Central African Republic0.22550
  4. Niger0.25579
  5. Venezuela0.27078

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.65079. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 120 in both
  • 79 · 40rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

  • Sudan0.79622 → 1.11575+0.31953
  • Mauritius1.11004 → 1.20891+0.09887
  • Iran0.82804 → 0.90082+0.07278
  • Moldova0.56275 → 0.63033+0.06758
  • Armenia0.63778 → 0.70407+0.06629

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 2016.

  • 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) (2016). Total Factor Productivity Level, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/total-factor-productivity/2016

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