--- canonical_url: "https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-24/the-world-klems-initiative/" title: "The World KLEMS Initiative" author: name: "CSLS" url: "https://csls.ca/author/cslc/" date_published: "2026-07-13T07:33:48+00:00" date_modified: "2026-07-13T07:33:48+00:00" post_type: "ipm" summary: "" ipm_issue_period: - "Fall 2012" ipm_keyword: - "college labour" - "EU KLEMS" - "growth accounting" - "industry-level" - "international" - "IT" - "Jorgenson" - "productivity" - "United States" - "World KLEMS" ipm_research_theme: - "Measurement and methodology" ipm_country_focus: - "Asia" - "Europe" - "International" - "Latin America" - "United States" featured_image: "https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IPM_50_banner.webp" status: "publish" --- # The World KLEMS Initiative Canonical URL: https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-24/the-world-klems-initiative/ # The World KLEMS Initiative [Download full PDF article](https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IPM-Issue-24-1-Jorgenson.pdf) Cite this article × Cite this article as: Jorgenson, Dale. 2012. “The World KLEMS Initiative.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 24 (Fall 2012): 5–19. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-24/the-world-klems-initiative/ ## Author: - Dale Jorgenson Department of Economics, Harvard University ## IPM Issue 24 Fall 2012 pp. 5–19 ## Related IPM articles [Efficiency Adjustment of Hours Worked: Two Possible Modifications of a Jorgensen Production Model Barbara Fraumeni Fall 2025 | IPM Issue 49 | pp. 103–115](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-49/efficiency-adjustment-of-hours-worked-two-possible-modifications-of-a-jorgensen-production-model/) [The Relationship between Efficiencies Defenses for Mergers and TFP Growth Robin Shaban Fall 2025 | IPM Issue 49 | pp. 82–102](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-49/the-relationship-between-efficiencies-defenses-for-mergers-and-tfp-growth/) [Adult Skills and Productivity: New Evidence from PIAAC 2023 Dan Andrews, Balázs Égert, Christine de La Maisonneuve Fall 2025 | IPM Issue 49 | pp. 41–63](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-49/adult-skills-and-productivity-new-evidence-from-piaac-2023/) [The Potential Impact of Pro-competitive Regulatory Reforms on Productivity and Growth in Canada Gilbert Cette, Jimmy Lopez, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Océane Vernerey Fall 2025 | IPM Issue 49 | pp. 3–40](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-49/the-potential-impact-of-pro-competitive-regulatory-reforms-on-productivity-and-growth-in-canada/) [De-industrialization and the Great Productivity Slowdown: What Comes Next? 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This project generates KLEMS data sets, consisting of inputs of capital (K) and labour (L) at the industry level, together with inputs of energy (E), materials (M) and services (S), for countries around the world. Growth of output, inputs, and productivity at the industry level is critical to understanding changes in the structure of an economy, especially the relative importance of different industries and different inputs. The article illustrates the insight into the growth process provided by the KLEMS framework by analyzing the sources of economic growth in the United States over the 1947-2010 period, including contributions to growth from ITproducing and IT-using and non-IT-using industries as well as college and non-college labour. RÉSUMÉ Un aperçu de l’initiative World KLEMS, qui regroupe EU-KLEMS, LA-KLEMS, et Asia-KLEMS, est présenté dans cet article. Cette initiative génère des ensembles de données, formés d’intrants de capital (K) et de travail (L pour Labour) au niveau des industries, et d’intrants d’énergie (E), de matières (M) et de services (S) pour des pays partout dans le monde. La croissance de la production, des intrants et de la productivité au niveau des industries est essentielle pour comprendre les changements structurels d’une économie, en particulier l’importance relative de différentes industries et de différents intrants. Cet article illustre ce que le cadre KLEMS peut nous apprendre sur le processus de croissance en analysant les sources de la croissance économique aux États-Unis pendant la période 1947 à 2010, y inclus la contribution à la croissance des industries qui produisent des TI, qui utilisent des TI et qui n’en utilisent pas, ainsi que celle de la main-d’œuvre ayant effectué des études collégiales et de la main-d’œuvre n’en ayant pas fait. T HE WORLD KLEMS I NITIATIVE was estab- L’objectif de cet article est de fournir un aperçu de l’Initiative World KLEMS, qui réunit EU KLEMS, Latin America KLEMS et Asia-KLEMS. Ce projet génère des ensembles de données KLEMS, composés d’intrants de capital (K) et de main-d’œuvre (L) au niveau industriel, ainsi que d’intrants d’énergie (E), de matériaux (M) et de services (S), pour des pays du monde entier. La croissance de la production, des intrants et de la productivité au niveau industriel est essentielle pour comprendre les changements dans la structure d’une économie, notamment l’importance relative des différentes industries et des différents intrants. L’article illustre l’éclairage sur le processus de croissance fourni par le cadre KLEMS en analysant les sources de la croissance économique aux États-Unis sur la période 1947-2010, notamment les contributions à la croissance des industries productrices de TI, des industries utilisatrices de TI et des industries non utilisatrices de TI. [Download full PDF](https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IPM-Issue-24-1-Jorgenson.pdf)