Ta ble IV. Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries

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Table IV. Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries

                                                        1990 = 100

  Production Employment Productivity¹

  Area  1994  1995 1994  1995 1994  1995

World²  104  107 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

Industrial countries 101  104 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

Less-industrialized 

  countries 118  122 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

North America³  115  120 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  Canada 106  110 . . .  89 . . .  123

  United States 113  117 96  97 118  121

Latin America⁴  111  112 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  Brazil  109  111 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  Mexico 110  103 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

Asia⁵  105  111 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  India 113  131 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  Japan 92  95 103  100 90  95

  South Korea 134  151 97  98 138  153

Europe⁶  94  95 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  Austria 104  111 86  . . . 121  . . .

  Belgium 100   104 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  Denmark 111  116 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  Finland 108  117 76  81 142  144

  France  99  101 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  Germany 

   (1991=100) 94  95 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  Greece  96  98 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  Ireland 135  162 104  110 130  147

  Netherlands 101  104 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  Norway 109  111 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  Portugal 93  96 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  Sweden 105  115 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  Switzerland 107  113 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  United Kingdom 99  102 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

Rest of the world⁷  . . .  . . . . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  Oceania 114  118 . . .  . . . . . .  . . .

  South Africa 96  103 96  97 100  106

See as table:

      ¹This is 100 times the production index divided by the employment index, giving a rough

  indication of changes in output per person employed.

²Excluding Albania, China, North Korea, Vietnam, former Czechoslovakia, former Soviet

  Union, and former Yugoslavia.

³Canada and the United States.

⁴South and Central America (including Mexico) and the Caribbean islands.

⁵Asian Middle East and East and Southeast Asia, including Japan, Israel, and Turkey.

⁶Excluding Albania, former Czechoslovakia, former Yugoslavia, and European countries

  of the former Soviet Union.

⁷Africa and Oceania.

  Sources: UN, Monthly Bulletin of Statistics; ILO,Yearbook of Labour Statistics.

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