About Total Economy Database™
The Total Economy Database™, (TED) is a comprehensive database with annual data covering GDP, population, employment, hours, labor quality, capital services, labor productivity, and Total Factor Productivity for 131 countries in the world.
United States data are presented in two series, 'United States' and 'United States (Adjusted)'. The first is based on official government data, while the adjusted series refers to our alternative GDP series for the US which are revised upward as they are based on alternative price deflators for ICT investment goods and services. The adjustment factors were revised and updated in August 2021.
Chinese data is presented in two series, 'China' and 'China (Alternative)'. The first is based on official government data, while 'China (Alternative)' represents alternative growth numbers, based on the work of Prof. Harry X. Wu, Hitotsubashi University. The data were last updated and revised in April 2022.
TED 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.
The use of all TCB data and materials is subject to the Terms of Use. Reprint requests are reviewed individually and may be subject to additional fees. TCB reserves the right to deny any request.