Long-Term Productivity Database

The Economic of Creative Destruction, new book edited by U. Akcigit and J. Van Reenen

This new book is available for sales and gather many papers on growth and innovation including "Productivity Growth and Real Interest Rates: A Circular Relationship" by Antonin Bergeaud, Gilbert Cette, and Rémy Lecat.

2022 version of the BCL database available for download.

This new version contains information from at least 1890 and until 2022 on GDP per capita, Labor productivity, TFP, capital intensity and average age of equipment for 23 OECD countries.

Working paper and Projection Tool for Energy Transition Pathways by Claire Alestra, Gilbert Cette, Valerie Chouard and Remy Lecat.

2019 version of the BCL database available for download.

This new version contains information from at least 1890 and until 2018 on GDP per capita, Labor productivity, TFP, capital intensity and average age of equipment for 23 OECD countries. The database now includes Greece and Ireland.

New version of the BCL database available for download.

This new version contains information from at least 1890 and until 2016 on GDP per capita, Labor productivity, TFP, capital intensity and average age of equipment for 23 countries. The database has been largely improved as detailed in the file. Main improvements includes: adding 6 more countries: Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and New Zealand; and better measures of labor input for Germany and France.

New tool to build future productivity scenario available

The tool developped by Gilbert Cette, Rémy Lecat and Carole Ly-Marin enable the user to build various scenarios of productivity for the period from today to 2100.

New interacting interface

You can now choose the series you like and plot them online. Have a look at our interactive page.

New article published

The latest paper using the database Bergeaud, A., Cette, G. and Lecat, R. "The role of production factor quality and technology diffusion in 20th century productivity growth," is forthcoming in Cliometrica. The version of the database used in the paper is now available on the website.

Download the latest version of the database

The current version of the database includes 17 OECD countries and gathers series on Total factor productivity and labor productivity per hours worked, capital intensity and GDP per capita.