--- canonical_url: "https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/issue-3/productivity-growth-in-the-oecd-area-some-recent-findings/" title: "Productivity Growth in the OECD Area: Some Recent Findings" author: name: "CSLS" url: "https://csls.ca/author/cslc/" date_published: "2026-07-10T09:13:28+00:00" date_modified: "2026-07-13T06:38:12+00:00" post_type: "ipm" summary: "" ipm_issue_period: - "Fall 2001" ipm_keyword: - "Europe" - "GDP per capita" - "ICT" - "multi-factor productivity" - "OECD" - "productivity growth" - "structural change" - "United States" ipm_research_theme: - "Productivity trends and comparisons" ipm_country_focus: - "Europe" - "OECD" - "United States" featured_image: "https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IPM_50_banner.webp" status: "publish" --- # Productivity Growth in the OECD Area: Some Recent Findings Canonical URL: https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/issue-3/productivity-growth-in-the-oecd-area-some-recent-findings/ # Productivity Growth in the OECD Area: Some Recent Findings [Download full PDF article](https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IPM-Issue-3-3-Pilat.pdf) Cite this article × Cite this article as: Pilat, Dirk. 2001. “Productivity Growth in the OECD Area: Some Recent Findings.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 3 (Fall 2001): 32–43. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/issue-3/productivity-growth-in-the-oecd-area-some-recent-findings/ ## Author: - Dirk Pilat Economic Analysis and Statistics Division, OECD ## IPM Issue 3 Fall 2001 pp. 32–43 ## Related IPM articles [Is the SNA Still Useful? 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Key findings include: the United States continues to have the highest GDP per capita in the OECD; the U.S. productivity lead widened in the 1990s after falling in prior decades; divergences in performance are not attributable to different measurement techniques; and differences in GDP per capita trends reflect differences in labour utilization, with the U.S. enjoying strong growth in both productivity and the employment rate while many European countries experienced limited employment growth. Cet article résume les recherches de l’OCDE sur les récentes tendances de productivité dans les pays membres. 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