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.

List

Different countries by labour productivity per working hour in 2019 International dollar according to Our World in Data:^[1]

Country	GDP per working hour (2017 US$ PPP)	Year
Ireland	125.09	2019
Norway	100.33	2019
Switzerland	82.92	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

Historical development

Different countries by development of labour productivity since 1970 according to the OECD:^[2]

GDP per hour worked 1970–2020
(2015=100)

Country	1970	1980	1990	2000	2010	2015	2020
Australia	51.4	60.3	66.0	80.9	92.2	100	103.1
Austria				83.0	95.6	100	103.7
Belgium	38.4	58.3	71.6	88.1	96.4	100	104.0
Bulgaria				63.8	89.5	100	110.6
Canada	56.1	66.6	73.1	86.7	94.7	100	111.4
Chile			43.4	72.5	89.6	100	119.4
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
Denmark	39.2	54.5	70.0	85.6	94.2	100	107.7
Estonia				60.5	95.2	100	119.5
Finland	30.2	46.8	63.3	86.5	98.9	100	103.3
France	36.6	54.3	72.9	87.5	95.7	100	103.5
Germany	38.8	56.2	70.9	87.1	94.9	100	104.0
Greece			85.1	99.9	112.8	100	99.0
Hungary				69.3	97.5	100	112.1
Iceland	33.2	54.9	61.6	69.6	96.1	100	108.8
Ireland	17.0	27.1	39.3	58.9	78.8	100	122.4
Israel			75.6	81.6	92.5	100	115.1
Italy	47.5	70.9	84.6	99.1	98.9	100	103.0
Japan	30.2	45.8	68.0	84.5	94.1	100	104.5
South Korea	8.4	14.6	30.8	55.9	90.4	100	117.6
Latvia				54.1	87.4	100	116.1
Lithuania				53.4	88.0	100	119.5
Luxembourg	46.5	58.3	82.3	97.7	101.4	100	101.1
Mexico				99.1	94.4	100	98.2
Netherlands	44.5	65.0	77.2	88.0	97.1	100	98.8
New Zealand	57.2	62.1	74.9	84.1	94.3	100	101.3
Norway	35.0	54.0	69.2	90.5	97.2	100	102.7
Poland				64.6	91.3	100	119.6
Portugal	41.0	58.3	71.5	86.1	97.2	100	103.2
Romania				43.8	82.4	100	117.8
Russia				63.5	95.0	100	112.3
Slovakia				58.6	89.7	100	112.7
Slovenia				76.3	96.4	100	111.5
South Africa					89.7	100
Spain	37.6	59.6	78.5	86.9	94.3	100	101.0
Sweden	44.2	56.2	63.1	79.6	95.0	100	103.3
Switzerland	57.8	70.8	77.6	86.4	97.8	100	107.0
Turkey	26.6	35.1	52.2	62.4	83.6	100	122.0
United Kingdom	40.4	53.8	66.8	87.1	97.7	100	104.6
United States	48.8	56.7	66.0	78.9	98.2	100	106.3