World Bank labor productivity panel (GDP per person employed, 1991-2025)

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Value-added panel of the World Bank's World Development Indicators (keyless API v2, CC BY 4.0): GDP per person employed in constant 2021 PPP dollars — the headline cross-country labor productivity level — for ~240 economies, 1991-2025, with 5-year and 10-year changes, within-year productivity ranks (1 = highest). The global output-per-worker layer for investors, economists and labor-market analysts; joins on economy_code with the catalog's other World Bank panels.

Source: World Bank labor productivity intelligence
Rows: 6,119
Columns: 10
Source cadence: Yearly
Last refreshed: Oct 11, 2026
Theme: economy

Column	Type	Description
economy_code	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 economy code (World Bank API field countryiso3code).
economy_name	string	Economy name as published by the World Bank API.
region	string	World Bank region (API field region.value).
income_group	string	World Bank income group (API field incomeLevel.value).
year	integer	Reference year (1991-2025; the series starts in 1991 and 2025 is the latest broadly covered year).
gdp_per_person_employed_ppp	float	GDP per person employed in constant 2021 purchasing-power-parity international dollars (WDI indicator SL.GDP.PCAP.EM.KD; International Labour Organization, Key Indicators of the Labour Market database). Strictly positive; historical extremes (MOZ 1992: 1,151; LUX 2007: 320,336) are genuine modeled estimates kept verbatim. (unit: constant 2021 PPP $ per worker)
gdp_per_person_employed_change_5y	float	Trailing 5-year absolute change of output per worker (exact prior-year match); null when the base year is absent. (unit: constant 2021 PPP $ per worker)
gdp_per_person_employed_change_10y	float	Trailing 10-year absolute change of output per worker (exact prior-year match); null when the base year is absent. (unit: constant 2021 PPP $ per worker)
gdp_per_person_employed_rank	integer	Rank of gdp_per_person_employed_ppp within the year (1 = highest output per worker). (unit: rank)
row_hash	string	Deterministic 12-hex row identity hash (economy_code\|year).

First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.

economy_code	economy_name	region	income_group	year	gdp_per_person_employed_ppp	gdp_per_person_employed_change_5y	gdp_per_person_employed_change_10y	gdp_per_person_employed_rank	row_hash
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,000	7,548.717	—	—	148	451e5542f3f9
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,001	6,815.205	—	—	151	f764e51f74ea
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,002	8,321.857	—	—	148	5af63b961982
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,003	8,516.673	—	—	147	77f01a56255a
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,004	8,317.1	—	—	149	07f3ecd34d09
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,005	8,911.529	1,362.813	—	148	4734c34f3031
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,006	8,972	2,156.795	—	148	cee0bb8f38b0
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,007	9,950.451	1,628.595	—	144	3368c40efd5d
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,008	10,041.751	1,525.078	—	143	f5750ddcaf41
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,009	11,642.279	3,325.179	—	139	0cdef2c4b503

Profiled Oct 11, 2026 from snapshot 20261011T121435Z-8f58acd37a11

Measured

Completeness: 95.7%
Rows: 6,119
Columns: 10
Columns with gaps: 2

Rows per yearyear · 1991–2025 · 35 years

19912025

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
economy_codevarchar	0%	202	—	AGO35 ALB35 ARG35
economy_namevarchar	0%	173	—	Albania35 Algeria35 Angola35
regionvarchar	0%	6	—	Europe & Central Asia1,666 Sub-Saharan Africa 1,572 Latin America & Caribbean 1,000
income_groupvarchar	0%	4	—	High income2,049 Upper middle income1,806 Lower middle income1,545
yearbigint	0%	35	1,991 → 2,025median 2,008
gdp_per_person_employed_pppdouble	0%	5,191	1,151 → 320,336median 34,710	124 outside 1st–99th percentile
gdp_per_person_employed_change_5ydouble	14.5%	5,951	-117,520 → 179,718median 1,891	106 outside 1st–99th percentile
gdp_per_person_employed_change_10ydouble	28.9%	4,198	-162,447 → 207,582median 4,187	88 outside 1st–99th percentile
gdp_per_person_employed_rankbigint	0%	191	1 → 177median 88	88 outside 1st–99th percentile
row_hashvarchar	0%	5,461	—	000df08048851 00190f572f921 001b61ae325d1

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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/wb_labor_productivity_intel/labor_productivity_panel" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/wb_labor_productivity_intel/labor_productivity_panel").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/wb_labor_productivity_intel/labor_productivity_panel

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World Bank labor productivity intelligence. (2026). World Bank labor productivity panel (GDP per person employed, 1991-2025) [Data set, snapshot 20261011T121435Z-8f58acd37a11, sha256 8f58acd37a11]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-11, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/wb_labor_productivity_intel/labor_productivity_panel?snapshot=20261011T121435Z-8f58acd37a11

BibTeX

@misc{dz_wb_labor_productivity_intel_labor_produc_8f58acd3,
  title        = {{World Bank labor productivity panel (GDP per person employed, 1991-2025)}},
  author       = {{World Bank labor productivity intelligence}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/wb_labor_productivity_intel/labor_productivity_panel?snapshot=20261011T121435Z-8f58acd37a11}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20261011T121435Z-8f58acd37a11, sha256 8f58acd37a114363bf2f4f96b2d55a7196db63c29fc2d392e55159f88fd3df0b; accessed 2026-10-11}
}

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