Estimates of productivity levels and GDP per capita permit the comparison of standards of living and underlying factors across countries.
The OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators provides a comprehensive overview of recent and more longer terms trends in productivity levels and growth in OECD countries.
The most recent issue of the Compendium, as well as a large range of additional information regarding the methodologies used in the OECD Productivity and ULC Databases, are available on the OECD productivity web page:
Bibliographic citation:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Productivity Statistics (2021Q1 Edition). UK Data Service. https://doi.org/10.5257/oecd/prod/2021Q1
The productivity and income estimates presented in this dataset are mainly based on GDP, population and employment data from the OECD Annual National Accounts.
Hours worked are sourced from the OECD Annual National Accounts, the OECD Employment Outlook and national sources.
28th May 2021
At the beginning of the year 2012, GDP per hour worked was significantly revised for a large number of OECD countries. Revisions are mainly due to the implementation of the classification NACE Rev.2 by European countries into their national accounts, the change of reference year in some OECD member countries, along with the possible implementation of other methodological changes. These changes can impact on output and/or labour input at the whole economy level.
Annual
Copyright:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Estimates of productivity levels and GDP per capita permit the comparison of standards of living and underlying factors across countries.
The OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators provides a comprehensive overview of recent and more longer terms trends in productivity levels and growth in OECD countries.
The most recent issue of the Compendium, as well as a large range of additional information regarding the methodologies used in the OECD Productivity and ULC Databases, are available on the OECD productivity web page:
The productivity and income estimates presented in this dataset are mainly based on GDP, population and employment data from the OECD Annual National Accounts.
Hours worked are sourced from the OECD Annual National Accounts, the OECD Employment Outlook and national sources.
Bibliographic citation:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Productivity Statistics (2021Q1 Edition). UK Data Service. https://doi.org/10.5257/oecd/prod/2021Q1
Annual
28th May 2021
At the beginning of the year 2012, GDP per hour worked was significantly revised for a large number of OECD countries. Revisions are mainly due to the implementation of the classification NACE Rev.2 by European countries into their national accounts, the change of reference year in some OECD member countries, along with the possible implementation of other methodological changes. These changes can impact on output and/or labour input at the whole economy level.
Copyright:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development