"Figure 1: The UK’s output per worker was lower than five G7 nations in 2020 and lower than Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the US in 2021.","" "Output per worker relative to the UK, 2020 and 2021","" "","" "Notes","1. Data on the number of workers are collected from the OECD productivity database, which is consistent with domestic concept estimates from the OECD national accounts database and thus more consistent with the gross domestic product (GDP) boundary. It was previously collected from the OECD labour database, which is on a national basis and not adjusted to the GDP boundary. This source change has resulted in changes to our estimates. 2. GDP data for Japan in 2021 are not available. " "Unit","Percentage difference" "","" "Country","Year 2021","Year 2020" "G7 average excluding UK","16","12" "USA","49","49" "Japan ","","-17" "Italy ","7","5" "Germany ","6","9" "France ","17","19" "Canada","3","7"