GGDC Productivity Level Database 2023 Edition

The 2023 release of the GGDC Productivity Level Database presents data on relative prices and labor productivity across 84 countries and 12 sectors, for the 2005, 2011, and 2017 benchmark years. For questions not covered in the documentation, please contact ggdc@rug.nl. When using these data (for whatever purpose), please make the following reference: Robert Inklaar, Ryan Marapin, and Kaira Gräler (2023), "Tradability and sectoral productivity differences across countries", GGDC Research Memorandum 195, available for download at rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pld/pld-2023 More information about this release of the GGDC Productivity Level Database can be found on the associated page on the website of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre.

In the previous version there was a mismatch between the data for value added and the PPPs for Croatia, with value added already denominated in euros and the PPPs in kuna's per USD. The PPPs have now been changed to euros per USD by dividing by the kuna/euro conversion rate of 7.53450 kuna/euro.