May 2024

United States business sector labour productivity data from BLS Labour Productivity and Cost Measures – Major Sectors – August 3, 2023 (XLSX sheet). [...] US labour productivity from BLS Labour Productivity and Cost Measures – Major Sectors – August 3, 2023 (XLSX sheet). [...] 7 Chart 5: Business Sector Labour Productivity Growth, United States and Canada, 2000-2023 (Index, 100 = 2000) 160 2019-2023, 1.58% 150 2008-2019, 1.52% 140 130 2000-2008, 2.50% 2008-2019, 0.87% 120 2019-2023, 0.01% 110 2000-2008, 0.94% 100 CA US Source: Canada Business Sector labour productivity data from Statistics Canada: Table 36-10-0206-01. [...] Note: For the underlying two-digit NAICS industry-level data on labour productivity levels and labour input for key years in the 1997-2022 period, as well as measures of productivity growth subperiods for each of the periods of interest, see Haun (2023). [...] Labour and capital cost shares are calculated by taking the arithmetic average of the share of costs for labour and capital at the start and end of each period.