Total factor productivity

How much output an economy gets from its labour and capital together, relative to 2017.

Total factor productivity (TFP) is the part of output that is not explained by how much labour and capital an economy uses: technology, organisation, skills and institutions. The Penn World Table computes it at constant national prices, as an index where each country's 2017 value is 1, so it shows how a country's productivity changed over time, not how it compares with others. The table is maintained at the University of Groningen and the University of California, Davis, and Our World in Data republishes it.

World map · Total factor productivity, 2017 = 1

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Source: Feenstra et al. – Penn World Table (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data (updated 2025-10-09) · fetched 30 Oct 2026

Over time · Total factor productivity, 2017 = 1

Source: Feenstra et al. – Penn World Table (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data (updated 2025-10-09) · fetched 30 Oct 2026

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Source: Feenstra et al. – Penn World Table (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data (updated 2025-10-09) · fetched 30 Oct 2026

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Hello there, I’m Klaus Jürgen Folz. I studied Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil, and I work in Austria as a lead Python and Power BI developer. I built Data Mechanics because good decisions start with facts. Public data is often scattered, hard to find or locked behind paywalls, and too much of what we read about the world is biased. Here, every number is shown as it was published, next to its source, so anyone can check it, compare countries and leaders, and draw their own conclusions.

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