Lord Kennedy of Southwark – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Kennedy of Southwark on 2015-11-26.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were the productivity levels in the UK compared with the rest of the G7 in each year since 1990.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe
The data is available on the ONS website, under the international Comparisons of Productivity section. For your ease, I have provided the table below:
Current price GDP per hour worked (UK=100)
|
Year |
UK |
G7 exc. UK |
Year |
UK |
G7 exc. UK |
Year |
UK |
G7 exc. UK |
|
1990 |
100 |
2000 |
100 |
107 |
2010 |
100 |
115 |
|
|
1991 |
100 |
119 |
2001 |
100 |
108 |
2011 |
100 |
114 |
|
1992 |
100 |
116 |
2002 |
100 |
106 |
2012 |
100 |
116 |
|
1993 |
100 |
112 |
2003 |
100 |
105 |
2013 |
100 |
117 |
|
1994 |
100 |
111 |
2004 |
100 |
105 |
2014 |
100 |
120 |
|
1995 |
100 |
111 |
2005 |
100 |
106 |
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|
1996 |
100 |
109 |
2006 |
100 |
104 |
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|
1997 |
100 |
109 |
2007 |
100 |
106 |
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|
1998 |
100 |
109 |
2008 |
100 |
107 |
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|
1999 |
100 |
111 |
2009 |
100 |
110 |
Data are in current prices, allowing cross-country comparison of productivity for each individual year.
Source: International Comparisons of Productivity, First Estimates for 2014, ONS (Sep 2015)
* Productivity data for the G7 are unavailable for 1990 due to the absence of comparable data for pre-reunification Germany.
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