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Total Factor Productivity Level, 2020

2020, 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, 2020 covers 120 countries. Egypt is highest, at 1.23664; Venezuela is lowest, at 0.10535. The middle country reads 0.62309. Against 2019, 119 values changed (44 up, 75 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Factor Productivity Level · Data for 2020

HighestEgypt

1.23664

LowestVenezuela

0.10535

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, 2020, 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, 2020: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa1.23664
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.07819
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.02729
GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.02576
United StatesUSANorthern America1.00000
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.99003
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.97000
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.96811
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa0.95852
ChileCHLSouth America0.94968
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.94558
PolandPOLEastern Europe0.94200
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.91953
IranIRNSouthern Asia0.91874
FranceFRAWestern Europe0.91841
BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.90899
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand0.90576
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.89839
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa0.89465
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.88866
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.86981
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.85635
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe0.84792
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia0.84548
CanadaCANNorthern America0.84427

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Egypt1.23664
  2. Norway1.07819
  3. Türkiye1.02729
  4. Germany1.02576
  5. United States1.00000

Lowest

  1. Venezuela0.10535
  2. Tajikistan0.20013
  3. Central African Republic0.22619
  4. Burundi0.22875
  5. Mozambique0.25972

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.62309. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 120 in both
  • 44 · 75rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

  • Iran0.78040 → 0.91874+0.13834
  • Slovakia0.57523 → 0.66819+0.09296
  • Chile0.87178 → 0.94968+0.07790
  • Angola0.37838 → 0.43029+0.05191
  • Egypt1.18659 → 1.23664+0.05005

Fell most

  • Macau1.31864 → 0.59687−0.72177
  • Mauritius1.19801 → 0.95852−0.23948
  • Iraq0.76043 → 0.61437−0.14606
  • Panama0.79874 → 0.67704−0.12170
  • Fiji0.75822 → 0.64509−0.11313

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 2020.

  • 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) (2020). Total Factor Productivity Level, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/total-factor-productivity/2020

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