Table 20: Comparative Productivity
Growth Numbers for
G-7 Countries (1979-96)*
(Annual percentage changes)

Total factor productivity

Labour productivity

Canada

-0.1   

1.0   

US

0.6   

0.8   

Germany

0.6   

1.1   

Japan

1.1   

2.2   

Italy

1.2   

2.1   

France

1.3   

2.1   

UK

1.5   

1.8   

*Or latest available year, for example 1994 for Germany, 1995 for Japan and Italy, the UK.
Source: OECD Economic Outlook #62, Paris: OECD, 1997, p. A66 (Annex Table 58).