List of countries by GDP (PPP) per hour worked

This is a list of countries of the world sorted by their Gross Domestic Product (PPP converted) per hour worked. This is the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year, divided by the total annual hours worked. The GDP (PPP) per hour worked is a measure of the productivity of a country.

Data are in 2009 international dollars.

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Rank	Country	GDP per hour 2009
1	USA	38.00
2	Norway	36.24
3	France	35.74
4	Belgium	34.88
5	Luxembourg	34.11
6	Netherlands	32.79
7	Trinidad and Tobago	31.60
8	Ireland	30.16
9	Sweden	29.79
10	United Kingdom	29.51
11	Australia	29.36
12	Germany	29.14
13	Denmark	29.04
14	Finland	28.82
15	Canada	28.22
16	Austria	28.11
17	New Zealand	26.59
18	Japan	25.56
19	Hong Kong	25.16
20	Switzerland	25.03
21	Spain	24.72
22	Italy	24.69
23	Iceland	23.03
24	Estonia	21.77
25	Taiwan	20.96
26	Cyprus	18.75
27	Slovenia	18.74
28	Slovakia	17.54
29	Greece	17.46
30	South Korea	17.37
31	Singapore	17.28
32	Malta	16.93
33	Argentina	16.13
34	Portugal	15.80
35	Venezuela	15.28
36	Latvia	15.13
37	Poland	14.83
38	Chile	13.97
39	Lithuania	13.46
40	Turkey	13.18
41	Czech Republic	12.46
42	Hungary	11.18
43	Barbados	11.80
44	Bulgaria	9.98
45	Mexico	9.05
46	Colombia	8.76
47	Brazil	7.28
48	Peru	7.26
49	Romania	6.03
50	Saint Lucia	5.15

The following list was made by the Center for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania (CICUP)^[1], and uses a index based on price sets of 2005. It calculates real GDP per hour worked by employees in 2005.

Data are in 2005 international dollars^[2].

Rank	Country	GDP per hour 2005
1	Luxembourg	71.95
2	Belgium	64.00
3	Netherlands	56.35
4	Greece	54.34
5	France	53.99
6	Italy	53.80
7	Ireland	53.13
8	Germany	52.15
9	United States of America	49.52
10	Austria	47.58
11	Finland	45.22
12	Denmark	44.80
13	Australia	44.57
14	Spain	43.82
15	United Kingdom	43.76
16	Sweden	42.52
17	Japan	42.44
18	Slovenia	35.22
19	Poland	30.45
20	Malta	29.53
21	South Korea	29.24
22	Portugal	27.33
23	Slovak Republic	26.13
24	Hungary	24.40
25	Lithuania	19.90
26	Latvia	19.33
27	Estonia	18.91

And these are data from 1950:

Rank	Country	GDP per hour 1950
1	United States	11.93
2	Venezuela	10.80
3	Canada	9.62
4	Australia	8.73
5	Switzerland	8.68
6	Luxembourg	7.93
7	Hong Kong	7.51
8	United Kingdom	7.35
9	Netherlands	6.96
10	Sweden	6.78
11	Denmark	6.72
12	Argentina	5.99
13	Belgium	5.83
14	Norway	5.78
15	France	5.13
16	Chile	5.04
17	Italy	4.54
18	West Germany	4.36
19	Finland	4.03
20	Mexico	3.80
21	Austria	3.57
22	Ireland	3.47
23	USSR	3.26
24	Peru	3.04
25	Colombia	2.95
26	Spain	2.52
27	Greece	2.43
28	Portugal	2.18
29	Japan	2.17
30	Brazil	2.11

[edit] References

• Groningen Growth and Development Centre, University of Groningen