The following list of countries by labour productivity ranks countries by their labour productivity (also called workforce productivity). Labour productivity is the gross domestic product generated per hour of working time.
Different countries by labour productivity (GDP per working hour) in 2019, measured in 2017 International dollar according to Our World in Data: [1] , based on the Penn World Tables.
Country | GDP per working hour (2017 US$ PPP) | Year |
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Ireland | 125.09 | 2019 |
Norway | 100.33 | 2019 |
Switzerland | 82.91 | 2019 |
Luxembourg | 80.33 | 2019 |
Denmark | 76.00 | 2019 |
United States | 73.70 | 2019 |
Netherlands | 69.78 | 2019 |
Germany | 68.85 | 2019 |
France | 68.63 | 2019 |
Belgium | 66.27 | 2019 |
Sweden | 65.54 | 2019 |
Austria | 65.15 | 2019 |
Iceland | 64.24 | 2019 |
Australia | 61.44 | 2019 |
Finland | 58.44 | 2019 |
Canada | 57.24 | 2019 |
Spain | 56.31 | 2019 |
Italy | 56.09 | 2019 |
Singapore | 54.55 | 2019 |
United Kingdom | 54.35 | 2019 |
Hong Kong | 49.12 | 2019 |
Taiwan | 46.01 | 2019 |
New Zealand | 44.55 | 2019 |
Turkey | 43.69 | 2019 |
Japan | 42.56 | 2019 |
Slovenia | 42.50 | 2019 |
Cyprus | 42.39 | 2019 |
Czech Republic | 40.93 | 2019 |
Israel | 40.87 | 2019 |
South Korea | 40.77 | 2019 |
Malta | 40.63 | 2019 |
Estonia | 37.10 | 2019 |
Poland | 37.08 | 2019 |
Slovakia | 35.83 | 2019 |
Portugal | 35.15 | 2019 |
Hungary | 34.83 | 2019 |
Romania | 34.72 | 2019 |
Lithuania | 34.45 | 2019 |
Latvia | 33.54 | 2019 |
Greece | 33.03 | 2019 |
Croatia | 32.26 | 2019 |
Russia | 29.55 | 2019 |
Argentina | 29.43 | 2019 |
Chile | 28.42 | 2019 |
Uruguay | 28.38 | 2019 |
Bulgaria | 26.55 | 2019 |
Malaysia | 24.75 | 2019 |
Trinidad and Tobago | 21.24 | 2002 |
Mexico | 20.34 | 2019 |
Costa Rica | 20.02 | 2019 |
Brazil | 19.20 | 2019 |
Sri Lanka | 18.02 | 2019 |
South Africa | 17.97 | 2019 |
Venezuela | 17.80 | 2006 |
Dominican Republic | 17.53 | 2019 |
Colombia | 16.96 | 2019 |
Ecuador | 15.26 | 2019 |
Thailand | 15.17 | 2019 |
Indonesia | 11.84 | 2019 |
China | 11.69 | 2019 |
Peru | 11.01 | 2019 |
Philippines | 9.93 | 2019 |
Pakistan | 8.77 | 2019 |
India | 8.68 | 2019 |
Jamaica | 7.71 | 2002 |
Vietnam | 6.74 | 2019 |
Myanmar | 5.15 | 2019 |
Bangladesh | 4.79 | 2019 |
Cambodia | 3.43 | 2019 |
Different countries by labour productivity (GDP per working hour) in 2017 International dollar according to the International Labour Organization (ILO): [2]
Country | GDP per working hour (2017 US$ PPP) | Year |
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Luxembourg | 146.1 | 2023 |
Ireland | 142.5 | 2023 |
Norway | 92.6 | 2023 |
Netherlands | 79.8 | 2023 |
Denmark | 78.2 | 2023 |
Switzerland | 75.6 | 2023 |
Belgium | 75.5 | 2023 |
Austria | 74.2 | 2023 |
Singapore | 73.8 | 2023 |
Sweden | 70.0 | 2023 |
Guyana | 69.9 | 2023 |
United States | 69.7 | 2023 |
Finland | 68.6 | 2023 |
Germany | 68.1 | 2023 |
France | 67.9 | 2023 |
Italy | 61.7 | 2023 |
Macau | 60.6 | 2023 |
United Kingdom | 59.0 | 2023 |
Australia | 58.7 | 2023 |
Iceland | 57.9 | 2023 |
Israel | 57.2 | 2023 |
Taiwan | 57.0 | 2023 |
Canada | 56.9 | 2023 |
Spain | 56.6 | 2023 |
Hong Kong | 56.5 | 2023 |
Saudi Arabia | 53.2 | 2023 |
Qatar | 52.6 | 2023 |
Malta | 50.7 | 2023 |
Puerto Rico | 50.3 | 2023 |
Brunei | 49.5 | 2023 |
Slovenia | 48.2 | 2023 |
Lithuania | 46.4 | 2023 |
Czech Republic | 46.3 | 2023 |
New Zealand | 45.6 | 2023 |
Panama | 44.9 | 2023 |
Croatia | 44.1 | 2023 |
Bahrain | 43.9 | 2023 |
Estonia | 43.9 | 2023 |
Portugal | 43.7 | 2023 |
South Korea | 42.0 | 2023 |
Greece | 41.9 | 2023 |
United Arab Emirates | 41.7 | 2023 |
Japan | 41.6 | 2023 |
Latvia | 40.7 | 2023 |
Turkey | 40.4 | 2023 |
Romania | 38.4 | 2023 |
Kuwait | 37.6 | 2023 |
Slovakia | 36.6 | 2023 |
Poland | 36.5 | 2023 |
Hungary | 35.5 | 2023 |
Cyprus | 34.7 | 2023 |
Bahamas | 32.9 | 2023 |
Oman | 31.4 | 2023 |
Kazakhstan | 30.1 | 2023 |
Libya | 29.7 | 2023 |
Uruguay | 29.6 | 2023 |
Russia | 29.5 | 2023 |
Chile | 28.9 | 2023 |
Bulgaria | 28.6 | 2023 |
Trinidad and Tobago | 27.8 | 2023 |
Argentina | 27.5 | 2023 |
Malaysia | 25.9 | 2023 |
Montenegro | 25.8 | 2023 |
Gabon | 25.6 | 2023 |
Mauritius | 25.5 | 2023 |
Iraq | 25.2 | 2023 |
Costa Rica | 25.1 | 2023 |
Iran | 23.1 | 2023 |
North Macedonia | 22.7 | 2023 |
Turkmenistan | 22.0 | 2023 |
Dominican Republic | 21.9 | 2023 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 21.5 | 2023 |
Georgia | 21.5 | 2023 |
Botswana | 20.8 | 2023 |
South Africa | 20.8 | 2023 |
Serbia | 20.6 | 2023 |
Armenia | 20.5 | 2023 |
Maldives | 20.5 | 2023 |
Mexico | 20.2 | 2023 |
Suriname | 20.1 | 2023 |
Egypt | 19.9 | 2023 |
Equatorial Guinea | 19.9 | 2023 |
Belarus | 19.7 | 2023 |
Djibouti | 19.5 | 2023 |
Algeria | 19.4 | 2023 |
Fiji | 18.6 | 2023 |
Cuba | 17.9 | 2023 |
Jordan | 17.8 | 2023 |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 17.5 | 2023 |
Brazil | 16.9 | 2023 |
Lebanon | 16.9 | 2023 |
Barbados | 16.7 | 2023 |
Albania | 16.5 | 2023 |
Azerbaijan | 16.5 | 2023 |
Tunisia | 16.0 | 2023 |
Colombia | 15.8 | 2023 |
Saint Lucia | 15.7 | 2023 |
Eswatini | 15.6 | 2023 |
China | 15.4 | 2023 |
Sri Lanka | 14.9 | 2023 |
Thailand | 14.7 | 2023 |
Namibia | 14.1 | 2023 |
Paraguay | 13.7 | 2023 |
Indonesia | 13.5 | 2023 |
Mongolia | 13.5 | 2023 |
Mauritania | 12.9 | 2023 |
Morocco | 12.4 | 2023 |
Peru | 12.3 | 2023 |
Yemen | 12.1 | 2023 |
Venezuela | 11.6 | 2023 |
Ecuador | 11.5 | 2023 |
Belize | 11.3 | 2023 |
Guatemala | 11.1 | 2023 |
Uzbekistan | 11.1 | 2023 |
Tonga | 10.6 | 2023 |
Philippines | 10.5 | 2023 |
Vietnam | 9.8 | 2023 |
El Salvador | 9.7 | 2023 |
Laos | 9.4 | 2023 |
Cape Verde | 9.3 | 2023 |
Jamaica | 8.9 | 2023 |
Moldova | 8.7 | 2023 |
Bolivia | 8.6 | 2023 |
Tajikistan | 8.5 | 2023 |
Angola | 8.0 | 2023 |
India | 7.9 | 2023 |
Ghana | 7.8 | 2023 |
Samoa | 7.8 | 2023 |
Bhutan | 7.6 | 2023 |
Nepal | 7.5 | 2023 |
Western Sahara | 7.4 | 2023 |
Kyrgyzstan | 7.2 | 2023 |
Nicaragua | 7.0 | 2023 |
Pakistan | 6.9 | 2023 |
Timor-Leste | 6.9 | 2023 |
Ivory Coast | 6.8 | 2023 |
Honduras | 6.8 | 2023 |
Nigeria | 6.8 | 2023 |
Bangladesh | 6.6 | 2023 |
Comoros | 6.6 | 2023 |
São Tomé and Príncipe | 6.4 | 2023 |
Sudan | 6.2 | 2023 |
Papua New Guinea | 5.7 | 2023 |
Senegal | 5.5 | 2023 |
Syria | 5.3 | 2023 |
Somalia | 5.0 | 2023 |
Benin | 4.9 | 2023 |
Kenya | 4.9 | 2023 |
Rwanda | 4.9 | 2023 |
Guinea | 4.8 | 2023 |
Myanmar | 4.8 | 2023 |
Vanuatu | 4.8 | 2023 |
Zambia | 4.6 | 2023 |
Cameroon | 4.3 | 2023 |
Republic of the Congo | 4.2 | 2023 |
Cambodia | 3.8 | 2023 |
Ethiopia | 3.4 | 2023 |
Gambia | 3.4 | 2023 |
Haiti | 3.4 | 2023 |
Guinea-Bissau | 3.2 | 2023 |
South Sudan | 3.2 | 2023 |
Uganda | 3.2 | 2023 |
Zimbabwe | 3.2 | 2023 |
Afghanistan | 3.0 | 2023 |
Togo | 3.0 | 2023 |
Mali | 2.9 | 2023 |
Burkina Faso | 2.8 | 2023 |
Tanzania | 2.8 | 2023 |
Lesotho | 2.5 | 2023 |
Malawi | 2.5 | 2023 |
Solomon Islands | 2.4 | 2023 |
Sierra Leone | 2.3 | 2023 |
Eritrea | 2.1 | 2023 |
Mozambique | 2.0 | 2023 |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1.9 | 2023 |
Madagascar | 1.8 | 2023 |
Niger | 1.7 | 2023 |
North Korea | 1.3 | 2023 |
Liberia | 1.3 | 2023 |
Central African Republic | 1.1 | 2023 |
Burundi | 0.8 | 2023 |
Different countries by development of labour productivity since 1970 according to the OECD: [3]
Country | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 2022 |
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Australia | 51.4 | 60.3 | 66.0 | 80.9 | 92.2 | 100 | 103.1 | 103.3 |
Austria | 83.0 | 95.6 | 100 | 103.7 | 105 | |||
Belgium | 38.4 | 58.3 | 71.6 | 88.1 | 96.4 | 100 | 104.0 | 101.8 |
Bulgaria | 63.8 | 89.5 | 100 | 110.6 | ||||
Canada | 56.1 | 66.6 | 73.1 | 86.7 | 94.7 | 100 | 111.4 | 104.1 |
Chile | 43.4 | 72.5 | 89.6 | 100 | 119.4 | 110.6 | ||
Colombia | 73.3 | 80.8 | 77.3 | 89.0 | 100 | 134.2 | ||
Costa Rica | 68.1 | 86.9 | 100 | 128.1 | ||||
Croatia | 75.2 | 88.5 | 100 | 97.3 | ||||
Czech Republic | 66.0 | 91.7 | 100 | 107.8 | 108 | |||
Denmark | 39.2 | 54.5 | 70.0 | 85.6 | 94.2 | 100 | 107.7 | 106.1 |
Estonia | 60.5 | 95.2 | 100 | 119.5 | 115.7 | |||
Finland | 30.2 | 46.8 | 63.3 | 86.5 | 98.9 | 100 | 103.3 | 106.1 |
France | 36.6 | 54.3 | 72.9 | 87.5 | 95.7 | 100 | 103.5 | 99.8 |
Germany | 38.8 | 56.2 | 70.9 | 87.1 | 94.9 | 100 | 104.0 | 106.5 |
Greece | 85.1 | 99.9 | 112.8 | 100 | 99.0 | 99.8 | ||
Hungary | 69.3 | 97.5 | 100 | 112.1 | 116.6 | |||
Iceland | 33.2 | 54.9 | 61.6 | 69.6 | 96.1 | 100 | 108.8 | 110.3 |
Ireland | 17.0 | 27.1 | 39.3 | 58.9 | 78.8 | 100 | 122.4 | 139.6 |
Israel | 75.6 | 81.6 | 92.5 | 100 | 115.1 | 118 | ||
Italy | 47.5 | 70.9 | 84.6 | 99.1 | 98.9 | 100 | 103.0 | 101.9 |
Japan | 30.2 | 45.8 | 68.0 | 84.5 | 94.1 | 100 | 104.5 | 104.1 |
South Korea | 8.4 | 14.6 | 30.8 | 55.9 | 90.4 | 100 | 117.6 | 121.3 |
Latvia | 54.1 | 87.4 | 100 | 116.1 | 128.9 | |||
Lithuania | 53.4 | 88.0 | 100 | 119.5 | 120.5 | |||
Luxembourg | 46.5 | 58.3 | 82.3 | 97.7 | 101.4 | 100 | 101.1 | 100.4 |
Mexico | 99.1 | 94.4 | 100 | 98.2 | 92.4 | |||
Netherlands | 44.5 | 65.0 | 77.2 | 88.0 | 97.1 | 100 | 98.8 | 102.7 |
New Zealand | 57.2 | 62.1 | 74.9 | 84.1 | 94.3 | 100 | 101.3 | 105.1 |
Norway | 35.0 | 54.0 | 69.2 | 90.5 | 97.2 | 100 | 102.7 | 103.4 |
Poland | 64.6 | 91.3 | 100 | 119.6 | 126 | |||
Portugal | 41.0 | 58.3 | 71.5 | 86.1 | 97.2 | 100 | 103.2 | 111.2 |
Romania | 43.8 | 82.4 | 100 | 117.8 | ||||
Russia | 63.5 | 95.0 | 100 | 112.3 | ||||
Slovakia | 58.6 | 89.7 | 100 | 112.7 | 116.5 | |||
Slovenia | 76.3 | 96.4 | 100 | 111.5 | 113.5 | |||
South Africa | 89.7 | 100 | ||||||
Spain | 37.6 | 59.6 | 78.5 | 86.9 | 94.3 | 100 | 101.0 | 102.5 |
Sweden | 44.2 | 56.2 | 63.1 | 79.6 | 95.0 | 100 | 103.3 | 108.3 |
Switzerland | 57.8 | 70.8 | 77.6 | 86.4 | 97.8 | 100 | 107.0 | 111 |
Turkey | 26.6 | 35.1 | 52.2 | 62.4 | 83.6 | 100 | 122.0 | 124.8 |
United Kingdom | 40.4 | 53.8 | 66.8 | 87.1 | 97.7 | 100 | 104.6 | 104.3 |
United States | 48.8 | 56.7 | 66.0 | 78.9 | 98.2 | 100 | 106.3 | 107 |
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