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Total Factor Productivity Level, 1999

1999, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Factor Productivity Level, 1999 covers 120 countries. Barbados is highest, at 1.28892; Burundi is lowest, at 0.13140. The middle country reads 0.66840. Against 1998, 119 values changed (57 up, 62 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Factor Productivity Level · Data for 1999

HighestBarbados

1.28892

LowestBurundi

0.13140

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Total Factor Productivity Level, 1999, 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, 1999: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
BarbadosBRBCaribbean1.28892
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.22952
MacauMACEastern Asia1.18992
BelgiumBELWestern Europe1.16759
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.15938
FranceFRAWestern Europe1.15503
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.14423
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia1.10684
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa1.09198
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.08688
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.07926
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe1.05111
SpainESPSouthern Europe1.04167
BulgariaBGREastern Europe1.03232
ItalyITASouthern Europe1.00177
United StatesUSANorthern America1.00000
GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.99675
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.97830
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.97515
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.94303
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa0.94008
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.93501
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia0.92139
CanadaCANNorthern America0.91508
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.90030

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Barbados1.28892
  2. Luxembourg1.22952
  3. Macau1.18992
  4. Belgium1.16759
  5. Ireland1.15938

Lowest

  1. Burundi0.13140
  2. Nigeria0.15946
  3. Zambia0.16252
  4. Angola0.16466
  5. Sierra Leone0.21104

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.66840. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 120 in both
  • 57 · 62rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2025 release

    Every year in this series comes from GGDC’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1999.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 120 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) (1999). Total Factor Productivity Level, 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/total-factor-productivity/1999

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07Questions

Total Factor Productivity Level, 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest total factor productivity in Total Factor Productivity Level, 1999?

Barbados, at 1.28892, of the 120 countries in the file.

What year does Total Factor Productivity Level, 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Total Factor Productivity Level, 1999 cover?

120.

Where can I download Total Factor Productivity Level, 1999?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Total Factor Productivity Level, 1999 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Total Factor Productivity Level, 2023.

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