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Total Factor Productivity Level, 2017

2017, 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, 2017 covers 120 countries. Macau is highest, at 1.3390; Venezuela is lowest, at 0.1071. The middle country reads 0.6552. Against 2016, 119 values changed (62 up, 57 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Factor Productivity Level · Data for 2017

HighestMacau

1.3390

LowestVenezuela

0.1071

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, 2017, 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, 2017: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
MacauMACEastern Asia1.3390
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa1.2139
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa1.1890
SudanSDNNorthern Africa1.1631
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.0406
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.0325
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.0285
GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.0162
United StatesUSANorthern America1.0000
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.9585
FranceFRAWestern Europe0.9527
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia0.9405
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.9325
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.9245
PanamaPANCentral America0.9195
PolandPOLEastern Europe0.9130
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.9107
BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.8992
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand0.8914
ArgentinaARGSouth America0.8847
IranIRNSouthern Asia0.8684
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.8679
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.8667
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia0.8661
CanadaCANNorthern America0.8576

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Macau1.3390
  2. Mauritius1.2139
  3. Egypt1.1890
  4. Sudan1.1631
  5. Norway1.0406

Lowest

  1. Venezuela0.1071
  2. Central African Republic0.2098
  3. Burundi0.2121
  4. Tajikistan0.2271
  5. Niger0.2426

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.6552. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 120 in both
  • 62 · 57rose · 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 2017.

  • 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) (2017). Total Factor Productivity Level, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/total-factor-productivity/2017

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