Summary

The main findings from official statistics and analysis of UK productivity, presenting a summary of recent developments.

Publications

• Productivity flash estimate and overview, UK: October to December 2023 and July to September 2023

  Productivity flash estimates for Quarter 4 (October to December) 2023, based on the GDP first quarterly estimate and labour market statistics, and productivity overview for Quarter 3 (July to September) 2023.

• UK productivity flash estimate: July to September 2023

  Labour productivity for Quarter 3 (July to September) 2023 based on data from the gross domestic product (GDP) first quarterly estimate and labour market statistics.

Data

• Output per worker, UK

  Estimates for gross value added (GVA), workers, and output per worker. Contains annual and quarterly statistics.

• Labour productivity time series

  Quarterly output per hour, output per job and output per worker for the whole UK economy and a range of industries.

• Output per hour worked, UK

  Estimates for gross value added (GVA), hours worked and output per hour worked for whole economy and section level industries, as defined by the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) 2007. Contains annual and quarterly statistics. Includes estimates for industry quarter on quarter, year on year and quarter on year contributions to whole economy output per hour worked.

Contact details

Changes to this release date

1. Previous date

   1 February 2024 9:30am

   Reason for change

   Given ONS plans, as [announced on 12 January 2024](https://www.ons.gov.uk/news/statementsandletters/statementonthelabourforcesurvey), to reintroduce an LFS-based dataset in the February 2024 labour market publication, we have decided to postpone the productivity overview until those figures are available, and now plan to merge this publication with the flash estimate, due on 15 February.

2. Previous date

   15 February 2024 9:30am

   Reason for change

   This publication is merging with the flash estimate which is a market sensitive release, this will be published at 7:00.

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