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1384. Selected Indexes of Manufacturing Activity, by Country

[1992=100. Data relate to employees (wage and salary earners) in Korea, Taiwan, Belgium, Denmark, and Italy, and to all employed persons (employees, self-employed workers, and unpaid family workers) in the other countries. Minus sign (-) indicates decrease. For explanation of average annual percent change, see Guide to Tabular Presentation.]

 
INDEX United South Nether- United
States Canada Japan Korea Taiwan Belgium Denmark France Germany 1 Italy lands Norway Sweden Kingdom
 
Output per hour:
  1950 (NA) 28.0 (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) 22.6 13.2 13.2 11.2 11.3 24.5 19.7 25.5
  1955 (NA) 34.4 8.7 (NA) (NA) (NA) 24.6 16.7 19.7 15.7 14.4 28.5 21.6 27.5
  1960 (NA) 40.7 14.0 (NA) (NA) 18.0 29.9 21.8 29.2 19.6 18.6 36.7 27.6 31.2
  1961 (NA) 42.9 15.8 (NA) (NA) 18.2 31.6 23.2 30.6 21.2 19.6 38.0 29.0 31.2
  1962 (NA) 46.3 16.6 (NA) (NA) 19.2 33.2 24.7 32.8 23.5 20.4 38.0 31.3 31.9
  1963 (NA) 48.2 18.0 (NA) (NA) 19.9 34.3 26.0 34.1 24.1 21.2 40.0 33.1 33.6
  1964 (NA) 50.4 20.4 (NA) (NA) 21.2 37.1 28.1 37.1 24.4 23.1 42.2 36.0 35.8
  1965 (NA) 52.9 21.2 (NA) (NA) 22.3 38.9 30.0 39.3 27.1 24.7 44.7 38.7 36.9
  1966 (NA) 53.8 23.3 (NA) (NA) 23.8 40.8 32.5 40.9 29.5 26.3 46.6 40.3 38.1
  1967 (NA) 54.3 26.3 (NA) (NA) 25.1 43.8 34.5 43.4 31.0 28.3 48.3 43.7 39.9
  1968 (NA) 57.6 29.5 (NA) (NA) 27.3 47.8 38.1 47.0 33.4 31.8 51.3 47.8 42.7
  1969 (NA) 60.6 33.8 (NA) (NA) 29.9 49.8 40.6 50.4 34.6 34.9 56.1 51.5 43.7
  1970 (NA) 59.2 38.0 (NA) (NA) 32.9 52.7 43.1 52.0 36.8 38.1 57.8 52.8 44.7
  1971 (NA) 62.7 40.2 (NA) (NA) 35.1 56.3 45.6 54.0 37.4 40.4 60.1 55.1 46.8
  1972 (NA) 65.7 44.1 (NA) (NA) 39.2 60.8 47.7 57.4 40.6 43.6 63.6 57.9 49.5
  1973 (NA) 69.6 48.1 (NA) (NA) 43.5 66.9 51.0 61.1 44.0 48.3 67.6 62.1 53.0
  1974 (NA) 70.8 49.3 (NA) (NA) 45.8 69.1 52.2 63.2 46.8 51.9 70.6 64.8 53.9
  1975 (NA) 68.2 50.7 (NA) (NA) 47.6 76.1 54.0 65.9 45.2 51.2 69.7 65.8 52.8
  1976 (NA) 73.1 53.8 (NA) (NA) 52.4 78.8 57.3 70.6 51.5 56.8 71.9 66.8 55.0
  1977 70.6 77.1 55.9 (NA) (NA) 55.0 80.4 60.7 72.7 52.5 61.4 71.5 65.8 55.5
  1978 71.1 78.5 58.1 (NA) (NA) 58.3 81.6 63.4 75.2 55.9 65.4 72.8 67.6 56.3
  1979 72.1 78.4 62.9 (NA) (NA) 61.4 85.6 66.3 78.4 61.3 68.6 78.1 72.9 56.7
  1980 71.9 75.3 63.9 (NA) (NA) 65.4 90.3 66.7 77.2 64.1 69.2 76.7 74.0 56.1
  1981 75.5 77.1 66.0 (NA) (NA) 70.1 91.8 68.6 78.7 65.6 70.8 76.5 73.5 59.0
  1982 77.8 75.3 68.7 (NA) (NA) 73.5 92.1 73.4 78.8 66.8 72.1 79.7 76.7 62.3
  1983 81.4 79.8 69.6 (NA) (NA) 81.0 96.6 75.0 82.6 70.4 77.8 82.4 81.8 67.1
  1984 84.6 86.6 71.9 (NA) (NA) 85.0 96.1 76.1 85.4 77.3 85.4 87.4 85.6 70.7
  1985 87.8 89.8 77.3 (NA) (NA) 87.0 96.7 79.1 89.1 81.6 89.0 90.2 87.1 72.3
  1986 88.3 89.3 76.9 (NA) (NA) 87.8 91.1 80.4 89.6 82.7 90.8 89.0 88.5 74.8
  1987 94.4 91.3 81.2 (NA) (NA) 88.9 90.6 81.8 88.1 85.1 91.6 93.3 90.1 79.4
  1988 98.0 91.1 84.8 (NA) (NA) 92.0 94.1 87.4 91.5 86.7 93.7 92.1 90.8 82.3
  1989 97.1 92.4 89.5 (NA) (NA) 96.9 99.6 91.9 94.6 89.4 97.1 94.6 93.8 86.2
  1990 97.8 95.3 95.4 (NA) (NA) 96.8 99.1 93.5 99.0 92.5 98.6 96.6 95.0 88.3
  1991 98.3 95.1 99.4 (NA) (NA) 99.1 99.6 96.9 101.9 95.2 99.6 97.5 95.0 92.2
  1992 100.0 100.0 100.0 (NA) (NA) 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
  1993 102.1 102.5 100.5 (NA) (NA) 102.5 104.5 100.6 100.6 102.9 101.4 100.6 106.7 104.0
  1994 108.3 106.2 101.8 (NA) (NA) 108.4 (NA) 108.5 107.9 105.6 112.7 101.4 116.1 106.8
  1995 114.9 108.9 109.3 (NA) (NA) 113.2 (NA) 114.4 111.2 109.3 117.7 102.0 122.4 104.8
  1996 117.3 107.3 115.8 (NA) (NA) 114.7 (NA) 114.9 115.1 110.3 119.7 102.0 125.4 103.2
  1997 122.1 111.0 121.4 (NA) (NA) 121.8 (NA) 123.2 121.8 113.4 125.7 101.9 133.6 104.0
  1998 127.9 111.7 120.4 (NA) (NA) 122.6 (NA) 127.4 127.1 113.6 127.8 104.1 136.5 105.1
  Average annual percent change:
    1979-85 3.3 2.3 3.5 (NA) (NA) 6.0 2.1 3.0 2.1 4.9 4.4 2.4 3.0 4.1
    1985-90 2.2 1.2 4.3 (NA) (NA) 2.2 0.5 3.4 2.1 2.5 2.1 1.4 1.8 4.1
    1990-98 3.4 2.0 2.9 (NA) (NA) 3.0 (NA) 3.9 3.2 2.6 3.3 0.9 4.6 2.2
 
Compensation per hour,
national currency basis: 2
  1950 8.7 5.7 (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) 2.5 1.6 3.4 0.8 3.1 2.2 1.9 1.6
  1955 11.7 8.1 3.1 (NA) (NA) (NA) 3.4 2.8 5.0 1.2 4.5 3.4 3.0 2.3
  1960 14.9 10.4 4.3 (NA) (NA) 5.4 4.6 4.3 8.1 1.6 6.4 4.7 4.1 3.1
  1961 15.3 10.7 5.0 (NA) (NA) 5.7 5.2 4.7 9.1 1.7 7.3 5.2 4.5 3.3
  1962 15.9 11.1 5.7 (NA) (NA) 6.2 5.6 5.2 10.3 2.1 7.8 5.7 5.0 3.4
  1963 16.4 11.6 6.4 (NA) (NA) 6.8 6.1 5.7 11.0 2.4 8.6 6.1 5.6 3.6
  1964 17.0 12.1 7.2 (NA) (NA) 7.7 6.6 6.2 11.9 2.6 9.9 6.5 6.1 3.8
  1965 17.4 12.8 8.1 (NA) (NA) 8.5 7.4 6.7 13.1 2.8 11.1 7.2 6.7 4.2
  1966 18.2 13.7 9.0 (NA) (NA) 9.4 8.4 7.1 14.2 3.0 12.5 7.8 7.3 4.5
  1967 19.2 14.4 10.0 (NA) (NA) 10.3 9.4 7.6 15.0 3.3 13.8 8.7 8.1 4.7
  1968 20.7 15.4 11.7 (NA) (NA) 11.0 10.3 8.6 16.1 3.5 15.4 9.6 8.8 5.0
  1969 22.2 16.6 13.8 (NA) (NA) 12.1 11.6 9.2 17.6 3.8 17.4 10.6 9.6 5.5
  1970 23.7 17.8 16.5 (NA) (NA) 13.7 13.3 10.3 20.7 4.7 20.2 11.8 10.8 6.3
  1971 25.2 18.8 19.0 (NA) (NA) 15.9 15.2 11.6 23.2 5.4 23.1 13.5 12.1 7.2
  1972 26.5 20.2 21.9 (NA) (NA) 18.8 16.9 12.8 25.6 6.0 26.5 15.1 13.5 8.3
  1973 28.5 21.9 26.8 (NA) (NA) 22.3 20.5 14.7 29.0 7.1 31.6 17.0 15.2 9.5
  1974 31.6 25.4 35.1 (NA) (NA) 27.4 24.8 17.4 33.0 9.3 37.7 19.9 17.8 11.4
35.5 29.1 40.9 (NA) (NA) 33.1 29.6 21.3 36.4 11.7 43.1 23.8 21.9 15.1
38.4 33.3 44.0 (NA) (NA) 38.3 33.0 24.4 39.1 14.5 48.1 27.5 25.6 17.6
41.8 37.0 48.6 (NA) (NA) 41.4 36.5 27.7 42.8 17.2 52.5 30.9 28.0 19.8
45.2 39.7 51.8 (NA) (NA) 44.4 40.2 31.2 45.9 19.8 56.8 34.1 31.2 23.1
49.6 43.2 55.1 (NA) (NA) 47.2 45.0 35.4 49.3 24.0 61.1 35.8 33.6 27.5
55.6 47.7 58.6 (NA) (NA) 52.5 49.6 40.8 53.6 28.2 64.4 39.0 37.4 33.2
61.1 53.3 62.7 (NA) (NA) 57.3 54.6 47.2 57.0 34.1 67.4 43.3 41.3 38.5
67.0 59.9 65.8 (NA) (NA) 59.9 59.5 56.1 60.4 40.2 71.5 48.2 44.3 42.4
68.8 63.7 67.6 (NA) (NA) 65.7 63.6 61.9 63.1 47.0 74.9 52.9 48.8 45.5
71.2 66.1 69.7 (NA) (NA) 71.4 67.2 67.2 66.0 53.9 77.7 57.9 53.0 49.1
75.1 69.9 72.5 (NA) (NA) 75.3 71.7 72.8 70.0 60.6 81.8 63.4 58.4 53.1
78.5 72.5 76.1 (NA) (NA) 77.3 73.2 75.8 72.8 63.1 85.0 69.1 63.1 57.6
80.7 75.3 77.9 (NA) (NA) 79.7 80.1 78.6 76.0 66.7 87.8 78.5 67.3 64.8
84.0 77.8 79.2 (NA) (NA) 81.1 82.9 81.6 79.1 69.3 87.7 83.3 71.7 67.7
86.6 82.5 84.2 (NA) (NA) 85.9 87.7 86.0 83.2 75.9 88.5 87.2 79.4 72.9
90.8 89.5 90.7 (NA) (NA) 90.1 92.7 90.6 89.4 84.4 90.8 92.3 87.6 80.9
95.6 94.7 95.9 (NA) (NA) 97.3 95.9 96.2 95.1 93.6 95.2 97.5 95.4 90.5
100.0 100.0 100.0 (NA) (NA) 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
102.7 99.6 104.6 (NA) (NA) 104.8 104.6 102.8 105.9 107.5 103.7 101.5 98.0 104.3
105.6 100.4 106.7 (NA) (NA) 106.1 (NA) 105.0 111.7 107.8 108.2 104.4 101.1 106.5
107.9 103.6 109.5 (NA) (NA) 109.2 (NA) 107.6 117.7 112.8 110.6 109.2 106.2 107.4
109.3 102.8 110.9 (NA) (NA) 112.0 (NA) 109.5 123.7 120.9 113.2 113.6 113.4 108.2
113.4 106.7 113.9 (NA) (NA) 115.2 (NA) 112.3 126.6 125.9 115.8 119.1 118.3 111.4
119.4 110.8 115.8 (NA) (NA) 116.0 (NA) 113.9 127.6 124.8 118.3 126.4 121.5 117.8
 
7.2 8.4 4.7 (NA) (NA) 8.1 8.1 12.8 6.0 16.7 5.0 10.0 9.6 11.6
3.9 5.1 4.6 (NA) (NA) 3.7 5.3 4.5 5.0 6.8 2.1 7.8 8.5 8.8
3.5 2.7 3.1 (NA) (NA) 3.2 (NA) 2.9 4.5 5.0 3.4 4.0 4.2 4.8
 
 
46.9 38.7 (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) 28.6 19.8 11.7 18.4 17.1 26.3 25.2 26.6
56.7 48.7 18.2 (NA) (NA) (NA) 31.9 26.7 15.9 21.4 21.2 29.4 30.5 29.1
65.4 57.1 23.2 (NA) (NA) 24.5 38.7 30.1 23.6 24.5 26.4 36.3 35.3 34.1
66.6 58.1 25.6 (NA) (NA) 25.7 41.7 32.2 25.8 26.4 29.8 38.7 37.9 35.2
68.5 59.6 27.4 (NA) (NA) 27.2 42.5 34.0 28.4 29.6 31.0 40.3 40.3 35.5
69.6 61.2 28.4 (NA) (NA) 29.4 43.9 35.4 29.4 32.6 33.1 42.0 43.3 36.4
71.6 62.7 30.8 (NA) (NA) 31.9 45.7 37.2 31.1 32.8 36.2 42.5 45.7 37.6
72.0 64.8 32.2 (NA) (NA) 34.0 47.7 39.3 33.1 33.7 39.0 45.0 48.0 39.2
73.2 67.1 33.8 (NA) (NA) 36.1 50.8 40.6 34.7 35.1 41.4 47.6 49.4 40.8
74.9 68.2 36.4 (NA) (NA) 38.3 53.0 42.5 36.1 37.9 44.3 50.9 52.5 41.8
77.3 69.8 40.2 (NA) (NA) 39.9 54.0 46.3 38.3 40.0 47.5 54.2 56.0 42.9
78.7 72.1 45.3 (NA) (NA) 42.1 58.7 47.5 41.0 42.7 50.2 58.0 58.8 44.2
79.7 74.6 50.0 (NA) (NA) 46.1 62.9 51.1 46.7 49.5 55.6 58.3 61.7 47.8
81.0 77.0 54.4 (NA) (NA) 51.1 68.3 54.1 49.8 54.3 59.1 62.8 64.0 49.7
82.5 78.6 59.7 (NA) (NA) 57.3 71.0 56.2 52.3 57.6 62.9 65.3 67.4 53.5
83.6 79.3 65.4 (NA) (NA) 63.6 78.8 60.0 55.4 61.4 69.4 68.5 69.7 55.8
83.6 83.0 69.5 (NA) (NA) 69.4 82.7 62.7 58.9 67.2 75.6 73.4 74.7 57.8
85.8 85.9 72.5 (NA) (NA) 74.3 90.0 68.4 61.3 72.4 78.5 78.6 83.5 62.0
88.0 91.1 71.4 (NA) (NA) 78.9 92.1 71.5 63.1 77.1 80.5 83.2 88.3 61.7
89.8 93.6 72.8 (NA) (NA) 79.5 91.8 74.2 66.7 76.5 82.3 85.6 86.0 60.1
90.8 92.2 74.5 (NA) (NA) 81.6 91.9 76.5 69.9 78.4 85.6 87.4 88.8 64.4
91.1 91.9 76.4 (NA) (NA) 83.1 93.7 78.4 72.2 82.0 88.2 87.6 89.8 67.4
91.8 92.1 75.4 (NA) (NA) 86.6 92.0 79.5 74.6 79.4 87.4 86.0 87.5 69.0
92.2 91.3 77.0 (NA) (NA) 87.8 90.7 81.2 74.6 80.9 85.7 84.1 86.2 72.0
95.5 92.5 78.6 (NA) (NA) 84.5 89.7 86.2 75.0 82.0 85.8 84.1 85.0 72.4
94.2 93.1 79.2 (NA) (NA) 86.1 89.7 86.9 76.0 83.4 87.4 85.1 84.3 74.4
93.7 92.5 79.8 (NA) (NA) 88.0 89.2 87.7 77.7 86.6 87.8 87.7 85.0 76.3
95.5 94.0 81.4 (NA) (NA) 88.5 90.9 89.6 80.7 89.6 90.4 90.8 87.2 77.8
98.1 93.7 85.0 (NA) (NA) 89.7 89.5 90.9 84.1 87.9 93.9 92.4 90.3 81.5
97.5 93.2 86.9 (NA) (NA) 91.0 94.1 91.5 87.7 88.8 97.4 96.4 92.3 88.1
97.9 92.6 87.8 (NA) (NA) 91.5 93.2 92.6 90.3 87.9 96.6 96.0 94.0 87.7
96.8 93.4 91.1 (NA) (NA) 94.1 94.1 94.1 92.3 90.3 96.3 96.1 98.1 87.7
96.6 95.9 95.3 (NA) (NA) 95.4 96.9 96.0 96.6 94.6 96.5 97.7 97.4 88.9
98.0 96.1 97.6 (NA) (NA) 99.7 98.0 98.8 99.1 98.7 98.1 99.8 97.2 93.9
100.0 100.0 100.0 (NA) (NA) 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
100.2 97.9 103.2 (NA) (NA) 102.0 103.3 100.7 102.1 103.2 101.1 99.2 95.3 102.7
100.8 98.4 104.7 (NA) (NA) 100.9 (NA) 101.2 104.8 99.6 102.7 100.7 96.2 102.3
100.2 99.4 107.4 (NA) (NA) 102.3 (NA) 102.0 108.7 98.9 103.1 102.7 96.8 99.7
98.9 97.1 108.8 (NA) (NA) 102.8 (NA) 101.7 112.8 102.0 103.6 105.6 102.7 98.1
100.4 99.2 109.7 (NA) (NA) 104.1 (NA) 103.1 113.3 104.4 103.7 107.9 105.8 98.0
104.3 102.2 110.9 (NA) (NA) 103.8 (NA) 103.8 113.3 101.6 104.0 112.0 107.5 100.2
 
 
(NA) 20.2 (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) 11.0 12.2 25.5 7.5 27.5 9.0 9.5 6.3
(NA) 23.4 36.1 (NA) (NA) (NA) 13.8 16.9 25.4 7.7 31.3 11.8 13.7 8.3
(NA) 25.5 30.9 (NA) (NA) 30.1 15.4 19.5 27.8 8.0 34.4 12.9 14.9 9.8
(NA) 24.9 31.8 (NA) (NA) 31.5 16.3 20.3 29.7 8.2 37.1 13.6 15.6 10.5
(NA) 23.9 34.6 (NA) (NA) 32.1 17.0 21.0 31.5 8.8 38