Labour productivity, GDP per hour worked (OECD)
ObservedGDP per hour worked in US dollars at current prices and current purchasing power parities, from the OECD productivity database.
Ingestedfrom OECDfreshlast run failedJSON export
Current value, United States
104.74US dollars per hour, current prices and PPPs
period 2025- Geography
- United States (USA)
- Observation date
- 2025
- Unit
- US dollars per hour, current prices and PPPs
- Frequency
- annual
- Ingested
- 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1-year change+4.62improving+4.62%2024 to 2025from 100.12 to 104.74 US dollars per hour, current prices and PPPs
10-year trend+4.48% per yearimproving+54.95%2015 to 2025compound annual growth rate; total +37.15 US dollars per hour, current prices and PPPs, from 67.6 to 104.74 US dollars per hour, current prices and PPPs
Historical series
Labour productivity, GDP per hour worked (OECD), United States
Observed
Data table (39 rows)
| Period | Value (US dollars per hour, current prices and PPPs) | Source revision | Ingested at |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 104.7444 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2024 | 100.1195 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2023 | 95.5506 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2022 | 90.8336 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2021 | 85.2399 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2020 | 80.0559 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2019 | 75.5562 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2018 | 73.0724 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2017 | 70.6649 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2016 | 68.6944 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2015 | 67.5987 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2014 | 66.2039 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2013 | 64.5719 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2012 | 63.1971 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2011 | 61.7326 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2010 | 60.5533 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2009 | 58.4059 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2008 | 56.007 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2007 | 54.1999 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2006 | 52.2514 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2005 | 50.1695 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2004 | 47.6843 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2003 | 45.3049 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2002 | 42.9956 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2001 | 41.0824 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2000 | 39.2332 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 1999 | 37.3891 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 1998 | 35.8658 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 1997 | 34.6319 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 1996 | 33.5046 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 1995 | 32.2696 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 1994 | 31.4106 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 1993 | 30.4043 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 1992 | 29.6215 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 1991 | 28.0371 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 1990 | 26.8068 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 1989 | 25.5153 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 1988 | 24.2097 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 1987 | 23.1279 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
Definition
What this measures
Labour productivity level measured as gross domestic product per hour worked, converted to US dollars using current purchasing power parities for GDP, at current prices. Hours worked cover total employment (employees and self-employed). OECD productivity database (dataflow OECD.SDD.TPS:DSD_PDB@DF_PDB), measure GDPHRS, unit USD_PPP_H, price base V (current prices), total economy. Annual. The OECD total is the OECD's own aggregate.
- Direction
- higher is better
- Geography level
- country
- Slug
- oecd-labour-productivity
Economy & Capital
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- Current account balance (IMF WEO)Observed
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- Gross capital formation as share of GDPObserved
- Labor hours per 100 gallons of gasolineDerived
- Labor hours per CPI basket, indexed to 2007Derived
- NASA contract obligationsObserved
- Real GDP growth (IMF WEO)Observed
- US 10-year Treasury yieldObserved
- US Department of Defense contract obligationsObserved
- US Department of Energy contract obligationsObserved
- US average hourly earnings, all private employeesObserved
- US consumer price index, all itemsObserved
- US federal contract obligationsObserved
- US federal funds effective rateObserved
- US federal heavy and civil engineering construction contract obligationsObserved
- US nonfarm payroll employmentObserved
- US real GDPObserved
- US real private fixed investmentObserved
- US total business inventoriesObserved
- US unemployment rateObserved
Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
- Classification
- Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
- Source organization
- OECD, OECD Data Explorer (SDMX REST API)
- Series ID
OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_PDB@DF_PDB/.A.GDPHRS._T.USD_PPP_H.V.N._Z.PPPlast fetch: error- Source links
- Source homepage: https://data-explorer.oecd.org
- License and attribution
- Approved with attributionOECD (2026), [dataset name], OECD Data Explorer, https://data-explorer.oecd.org (accessed on [date]).
- Last source update
- 2026-09-07(source revision label as published by the provider)
- Last ingestion
- last successful runfresh
- Last run
- failed2026-09-14 00:14 UTCoecd-industrial-production: HTTP 500 from https://sdmx.oecd.org/public/rest/data/OECD.SDD.STES,DSD_STES@DF_INDSERV,/.M.PRVM.IX.BTE.Y._Z._Z.N?format=csvfilewithlabels | oecd-labour-productivity: HTTP 500 from https://sdmx.oecd.org/public/rest/data/OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_PDB@DF_PDB,/.A.GDPHRS._T.USD_PPP_H.V.N._Z.PPP?format=csvfilewithlabels | oecd-rd-expenditure: HTTP 500 from https://sdmx.oecd.org/public/rest/data/OECD.STI.STP,DSD_MSTI@DF_MSTI,/.A.G.PT_B1GQ._Z._Z?format=csvfilewithlabels
- Parser version
- oecd-sdmx-csv/1.0.0
- Methodology version
- 1.0
- Quality and confidence
- Values are revised in place by the OECD; each revision is stored as a new row labelled with the response date. The OECD total is stored under the aggregate geography OECD; EU, euro area and G7 aggregates are not stored.Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 1,000 US dollars per hour, current prices and PPPs.39 periods with values for this geography, 1987 to 2025.
- Revisions
- Values reported for the latest period (2025) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revision Value (US dollars per hour, current prices and PPPs) Ingested at Status 2026-09-07 104.7444 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC current No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.