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Productivity flash estimate and overview, UK: January to March 2025 and October to December 2024
Productivity flash estimates for Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2025, based on the GDP first quarterly estimate and labour market statistics, and productivity overview for Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2024.
Annual multi-factor productivity, market sector, UK: October to December 2024
What's in the bulletin?
- Multi-factor productivity (MFP) in 2024 is estimated to have decreased by 0.6% compared with a year ago and by 0.7% compared with 2019; this contrasts with trend growth in MFP of around 1.8% per year in the decade before the 2008 economic downturn.
- Capital services per hour worked (capital deepening) after 2008 remains weak by historical standards, reflecting subdued growth in investment and sustained growth in both hours worked and labour composition.
- The largest positive contributor to growth in market sector hours worked has been workers with degrees, as opposed to workers with lower qualifications; in 2024 workers with degrees or higher qualifications accounted for 39% of total hours worked in the market sector, compared with 21% in 2008 and 12% in 1994.
Datasets related to Productivity measures
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Labour productivity: Tables 1 to 8 and R1
Quarterly output per hour, output per job and output per worker for the whole UK economy and a range of industries.
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Flash productivity by section
Flash estimate of labour productivity for Quarter 2 (April to June) 2023 based on the latest data from the gross domestic product (GDP) second quarterly estimate and labour market statistics.
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Multi-factor productivity estimates
Quarterly and annual growth accounting data for the UK market sector and component industries. Experimental estimates.
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Public service productivity, quarterly
Reference tables for experimental statistics on UK public service productivity. Includes estimates of inputs, output, productivity, and revisions compared to estimates from the previous quarter.
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Unit labour cost and unit wage cost time series
Unit labour cost, average labour compensation per hour worked, labour share and unit wage cost for the whole UK economy, unit wage cost for manufacturing.
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Subregional productivity: labour productivity indices by UK ITL2 and ITL3 subregions
Annual labour productivity (output per hour and output per job) indices by UK ITL2 and ITL3 subregions.
Publications related to Productivity measures
Statistical bulletins
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Labour productivity for UK countries and regions, quarterly: October to December 2020
Introducing annual and quarterly regional labour productivity, gross value added, hours and jobs, 2012 to 2020.
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Annual multi-factor productivity, market sector, UK: October to December 2024
Annual estimates of multi-factor productivity up to 2024 and quarterly estimates up to Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2024. These are official statistics in development.
Articles
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Productivity flash estimate and overview, UK
Productivity flash estimates for Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2025, based on the GDP first quarterly estimate and labour market statistics, and productivity overview for Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2024.
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UK productivity flash estimate
Labour productivity for Quarter 3 (July to September) 2023 based on data from the gross domestic product (GDP) first quarterly estimate and labour market statistics.
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Subregional productivity in the UK
Estimates for subregional labour productivity measured as gross value added (GVA) per hour worked and GVA per filled job.
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International comparisons of productivity (ICP) methodology updates
An update on the work in progress to develop a UK-tailored component method for estimating labour inputs for productivity estimates.
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Firm-level labour productivity measures from the Annual Business Survey, UK
Labour productivity firm-level experimental statistics using the Annual Business Survey. Covering non-financial business economy for the UK, 1998 to 2019.
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Coronavirus and the effects on UK productivity measures
How the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the wider containment efforts are expected to impact on UK productivity estimates, and challenges on data collection.
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