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Total Factor Productivity Level, 2018

2018, 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, 2018 covers 120 countries. Macau is highest, at 1.40264; Central African Republic is lowest, at 0.20920. The middle country reads 0.64468. Against 2017, 119 values changed (48 up, 71 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Factor Productivity Level · Data for 2018

HighestMacau

1.40264

LowestCentral African Republic

0.20920

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, 2018, 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, 2018: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
MacauMACEastern Asia1.40264
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa1.22325
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa1.22095
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.09137
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.02046
GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.01597
United StatesUSANorthern America1.00000
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.96402
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.95875
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia0.94662
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.94010
PolandPOLEastern Europe0.93832
FranceFRAWestern Europe0.92639
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.91570
ArgentinaARGSouth America0.88698
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.87812
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa0.87686
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.87486
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand0.87271
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.87006
BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.86972
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia0.86192
ChileCHLSouth America0.85791
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia0.85486
MaltaMLTSouthern Europe0.85232

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Macau1.40264
  2. Mauritius1.22325
  3. Egypt1.22095
  4. Norway1.09137
  5. Ireland1.02046

Lowest

  1. Central African Republic0.20920
  2. Tajikistan0.20922
  3. Burundi0.20940
  4. Venezuela0.23231
  5. Niger0.25490

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.64468. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 120 in both
  • 48 · 71rose · 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 2018.

  • 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) (2018). Total Factor Productivity Level, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/total-factor-productivity/2018

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