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Total Factor Productivity Level, 2023

2023, 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, 2023 covers 120 countries. Egypt is highest, at 1.1922; Venezuela is lowest, at 0.0518. The middle country reads 0.6265. Against 2022, 119 values changed (35 up, 84 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Factor Productivity Level · Data for 2023

HighestEgypt

1.1922

LowestVenezuela

0.0518

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, 2023, 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, 2023: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa1.1922
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.0925
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.0766
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.0420
GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.0218
United StatesUSANorthern America1.0000
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.9867
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.9852
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa0.9662
PolandPOLEastern Europe0.9658
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.9287
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.9253
BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.9161
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.9082
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.8920
FranceFRAWestern Europe0.8872
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand0.8793
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.8756
ChileCHLSouth America0.8673
BulgariaBGREastern Europe0.8495
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.8470
RomaniaROUEastern Europe0.8465
SpainESPSouthern Europe0.8455
GabonGABMiddle Africa0.8431
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa0.8349

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Egypt1.1922
  2. Türkiye1.0925
  3. Norway1.0766
  4. Ireland1.0420
  5. Germany1.0218

Lowest

  1. Venezuela0.0518
  2. Central African Republic0.1985
  3. Tajikistan0.2096
  4. Burundi0.2110
  5. Mozambique0.2360

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.6265. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 120 in both
  • 35 · 84rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Kuwait0.9268 → 0.7849−0.1419
  • Ireland1.1659 → 1.0420−0.1239
  • Gabon0.9565 → 0.8431−0.1134
  • Norway1.1885 → 1.0766−0.1119
  • Bahrain0.7417 → 0.6426−0.0991

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 2023.

  • 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) (2023). Total Factor Productivity Level, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/total-factor-productivity/2023

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