High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Monday, August 03, 2009
Productivity
Labour productivity - defined as Gross Domestic Product ( GDP) per hour worked - measures the amount of goods and services (output) produced from an hour of work. The most productive economies can produce higher levels of output from an hour of work. In 2007 Scotland was ranked 17th (out of 31) against the countries of the OECD, and is at the top of the third quartile. Scotland's productivity levels in 2007 were 85.6% of the levels in Germany, the country ranked at the bottom of the top quartile. Germany have been the lowest ranked country in the top quartile in every year since 2000. Between 2006 and 2007 the gap between productivity levels in Scotland and the lowest ranked country in the top quartile (Germany) decreased by 0.6 percentage points.
The Scottish Government has established a target to rank in the top quartile for productivity amongst our key trading partners in the OECD by 2017.
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Source: OECD, ONS