The Conference Board Total Economy Database

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2011 Productivity Brief – Key Findings








 


What is TED

The Conference Board Total Economy Database is a comprehensive database with annual data covering GDP, population, employment, hours, labor quality, capital services, labor productivity, and total factor productivity for about 123 countries in the world.

The Total Economy Database was developed by the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) in the early 1990s, and starting in the late 1990s, it was produced in partnership with The Conference Board. As of 2007, the database was transferred from the University of Groningen to The Conference Board, which has maintained and extended the database since then. In January 2010, the database was extended with a module on sources of growth, including labor quantity and quality, capital services (non-ICT and ICT), and total factor productivity. The extended module aims to integrate two previous data sets: the world economy productivity data set created by Dale Jorgenson and Khuong Vu of Harvard University and the Total Economy Growth Accounting Database of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre.

 


Coverage

The Conference Board Total Economy Database, which includes data for 123 countries from 1950 onwards, consists of the following series:

These countries represent about 97 percent of the world population and, as smaller and poorer countries in particular are not yet included in the database, the sample represents an even larger share of the world GDP (99 percent).

 


Frequency

The Conference Board Total Economy Database is published every year in January, providing preliminary estimates for the previous year and projections for the current year. The main results are published in The 2011 Productivity Brief. The database is updated in the fall together with a more detailed discussion and analysis in the annual Performance Report (Members only). The series in the database are also used by the International Labor Office for their Key Indicators of the Labor Market (Chapter 18), and by the Department of Commerce in the Statistical Abstract of the United States.

 


Contact

Ben Cheng
Research Assistant 
Economics Department
Phone: 1 212-339-0208
E-Mail: ben.cheng@conference-board.org



Downloadable files

All series derived from this database need to be cited as: "The Conference Board Total Economy Database, January 2011, http://www.conference-board.org/data/economydatabase/" NOTE: These data are for analysis purposes only, and not for redistribution, publishing, databasing, or public posting without express written permission.

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