Labour productivity per person employed

Index (EU-27 = 100)

Please be aware that this indicator has been rescaled, i.e. data is expressed in relation to EU-27 = 100. Thus, they are not comparable with previous releases based on EU-25 = 100.

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a measure for the economic activity. It is defined as the value of all goods and services produced less the value of any goods or services used in their creation. GDP per person employed is intended to give an overall impression of the productivity of national economies expressed in relation to the European Union (EU-27) average. If the index of a country is higher than 100, this country's level of GDP per person employed is higher than the EU average and vice versa. Basic figures are expressed in PPS, i.e. a common currency that eliminates the differences in price levels between countries allowing meaningful volume comparisons of GDP between countries. Please note that "persons employed" does not distinguish between full-time and part-time employment.

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	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
EU (27 countries)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0 ^(b)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Euro area (changing composition)	118.3	117.7	117.0	116.8	115.6	113.9	112.6	111.8	111.0	109.9	109.9 ^(b)	109.8	109.6	109.7	109.2	108.8	108.5
Euro area (17 countries)	115.3	114.8	114.4	114.3	113.3	111.6	111.2	110.5	109.8	108.8	108.8 ^(b)	108.7	108.8	109.1	109.0	108.5	108.5
Euro area (16 countries)	115.7	115.2	114.8	114.6	113.6	112.2	111.5	110.8	110.0	109.0	109.0 ^(b)	109.0	109.0	109.3	109.2	108.8	108.7
Belgium	139.8 ^(b)	137.3	137.7	134.6	134.5	137.3	134.2	137.1	135.6	132.6	130.5 ^(b)	129.3	127.7	127.1	127.9	128.6	127.5
Bulgaria	31.4	24.7	25.6	28.0	29.3	31.3	32.2	34.0	34.8	34.8	35.8 ^(b)	36.4	37.5	39.6	40.0	41.2	44.3
Czech Republic	64.4	66.0	64.5	63.8	65.0	65.6	67.9	67.7	71.2	73.0	73.1 ^(b)	74.0	76.3	74.1 ^(b)	75.9	73.7	74.0
Denmark	108.9	109.9	110.3	109.6	109.1	111.1	108.0	109.1	106.9	109.3	107.3 ^(b)	107.1	104.8	105.9	105.8	111.7	110.4
Germany	115.4	114.9	113.5	111.9	110.8	107.2	106.2	106.0	107.9	107.7	108.6 ^(b)	108.8	108.4	108.0	104.3	106.0	106.5
Estonia	34.1	36.5	40.0	41.6	43.5	47.2	48.4	51.3	55.0	57.7	60.8 ^(b)	62.4	66.7	65.8	65.1	68.3	67.9
Ireland	120.8	122.9	126.0	126.0	125.7	129.2	129.2	135.0	137.8	137.0	135.7 ^(b)	136.1	137.1	127.9	134.4	138.8	142.6
Greece	89.7	90.7	93.5	91.2	91.6	94.2	97.7	100.2	101.9	101.2	95.9 ^(b)	97.2	95.5	97.7 ^(p)	98.2 ^(p)	93.2 ^(p)	90.1 ^(p)
Spain	110.3	109.9	108.6	108.2	106.0	104.2	103.5	105.3	104.2	102.4	101.5 ^(b)	102.8	103.2	104.4	109.6	107.9	108.4
France	120.7	119.7	120.1	120.6	119.4	119.4	119.6	120.1	116.3	115.5	116.5 ^(b)	115.4	115.6	115.4	117.3	116.5	116.5
Italy	131.2	130.5	129.9	131.4	128.9	127.5	126.7	119.0	116.8	113.3	112.1 ^(b)	111.2	111.6	113.0	112.6	110.1	108.9
Cyprus	79.9	80.1	80.1	81.8	82.9	84.3	86.4	84.4	82.1	82.4	83.0 ^(b)	84.2	85.5	91.1	92.5	91.0	90.8
Latvia	33.4	34.7	35.8	37.9	38.3	40.1 ^(b)	41.6 ^(b)	42.8 ^(b)	44.2 ^(b)	45.9 ^(b)	47.8 ^(b)	48.9 ^(b)	51.4 ^(b)	51.6 ^(b)	52.8 ^(b)	53.7 ^(b)	62.4 ^(b)
Lithuania	36.2	37.0	38.6	41.1	40.6	43.2	47.4	48.6	52.6	53.9	55.0 ^(b)	56.8	59.6	62.1	58.0	62.5	64.8
Luxembourg	175.4	173.4	166.8	166.1	176.8	176.8	163.0	164.2	168.2	170.6	170.3 ^(b)	179.6	180.0	168.6	161.2	167.0	168.9
Hungary	55.0	54.8	56.4	57.6	56.4	57.1	61.5	64.8	66.0	67.1	67.7 ^(b)	67.8	66.6	70.7	72.4	70.8	71.1
Malta	105.9	97.3	100.3	101.8	103.7	100.9	94.3	96.0	95.3	93.8	94.1 ^(b)	92.5	91.0	93.0	96.0	95.1	92.9
Netherlands	110.6	110.5	110.5	111.3	112.2	115.0	113.8	113.9	111.5	112.9	114.6 ^(b)	114.4	114.5	115.5	112.7	112.1	111.5
Austria	124.5	124.5	122.5	123.5	122.8	123.5	118.3	120.4	120.7	121.0	118.5 ^(b)	119.2	117.1	116.6	116.2	116.5	116.6
Poland	46.0	47.7	49.6	50.8	54.3	55.5	56.3	59.0	60.3	61.9	61.8 ^(b)	61.2	62.3	62.4	65.5	67.4	68.8
Portugal	70.9	70.4	70.6	70.5	72.3	72.1	71.0	70.9	71.2	69.9	72.9 ^(b)	73.2	74.0	73.6	76.1	76.9	75.5 ^(p)
Romania	..	..	..	..	23.4	23.7	25.7	29.4	31.3	34.6	36.1 ^(b)	39.7	43.4	49.2	49.4	49.1	49.2
Slovenia	66.7	69.9	73.6	75.5	77.0	76.1	76.2	77.6	79.0	81.6	83.3 ^(b)	83.4	83.2	83.8	80.5	79.3	80.5
Slovakia	50.2	51.8	54.6	56.5	56.9	58.4	60.8	62.9	63.7	65.8	68.8 ^(b)	71.7	76.5	79.8	80.0	81.1	80.1
Finland	111.2	109.0	110.9	114.2	113.5	115.5	113.0	112.2	110.1	113.7	111.3 ^(b)	110.7	113.7	113.4	110.2	108.8	109.2
Sweden	111.0	112.4	113.9	113.2	114.7	114.9	109.1	109.4	112.0	115.6	112.1 ^(b)	113.1	114.9	114.4	112.2	114.1	115.4
United Kingdom	106.5	108.4	110.0	109.9	109.7	111.2	112.0	112.1	112.9	114.3	113.8 ^(b)	113.1	110.6	107.5	105.9	105.9	104.2
Iceland	..	..	..	110.9	108.3	103.3	104.1	104.8	101.7	108.3	105.8 ^(b)	99.1 ^(f)	96.4 ^(f)	100.7 ^(f)	102.3 ^(f)	94.3 ^(f)	94.3 ^(f)
Norway	115.2	121.3	122.7	114.5	120.6	139.4	137.1	132.3	135.8	144.2	154.6 ^(b)	159.2	153.4	159.9	146.5	151.6	156.5
Switzerland	116.1	115.5	116.8	115.4	113.5	113.1	109.8	110.1	108.4	108.1	107.0 ^(b)	109.2	112.4	115.2	114.6	115.9	116.8
Montenegro	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Croatia	..	60.4	61.2	63.4	63.7	62.2	67.4	67.2	69.6	70.4	71.4 ^(f)	70.5 ^(f)	72.5 ^(f)	74.9 ^(f)	72.9 ^(f)	72.6 ^(f)	74.9 ^(f)
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the	..	..	46.8	46.1	47.5	48.5	46.5	46.7	49.7	53.1	56.2 ^(b)	56.9	56.7	58.4	60.0	58.3	57.4 ^(f)
Turkey	35.6	37.0	40.1	53.4	49.1	54.4 ^(f)	49.7 ^(f)	49.2 ^(f)	49.8 ^(f)	60.1 ^(f)	64.1 ^(f)	67.6 ^(f)	69.5 ^(f)	71.9 ^(f)	70.3 ^(f)	71.1 ^(f)	70.8 ^(f)
United States	138.1	139.4	139.9	141.4	144.1	142.5	140.9	140.9	142.6	143.5	144.4 ^(b)	140.6	139.4	138.1	140.9	142.9	143.5 ^(f)
Japan	102.2 ^(e)	103.0	102.1	99.4	99.3	100.6	99.6	100.1	100.8	100.9	100.3 ^(b)	97.5	97.5	95.3	92.9 ^(f)	96.5 ^(f)	95.5 ^(f)

(..) - not available
(b) - break in series
(p) - provisional
(f) - forecast
(e) - estimated

Source: Eurostat