10-Sector Database, 2007 release

The GGDC 10-Sector Database provides a long-run internationally comparable dataset on sectoral productivity performance in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the US. Variables covered in the data set are annual series of value added, output deflators, and persons employed for 10 broad sectors. It gives sectoral detail to the historical macro data in Maddison (2003) from 1950 onwards. It consists of series for 10 countries in Asia, 9 in Latin-America and 9 in Europe and the US. Read additional information and fundamental research at the bottom of this page.

Downloadable data Asia

Downloadable data Latin America

Downloadable data OECD

Flat files

Sources and Methods

• Sources Asia
• Sources Latin America
• Sources OECD

Additional information

In the present database we distinguish between ten sectors of the economy, namely: agriculture, mining, manufacturing, construction, public utilities, retail and wholesale trade, transport and communication, finance and business services, other market services and government services.

It should be stressed that the estimates for the total economy are aggregated across sectors and that, given several adjustments at sectoral level, the aggregate results are not fully consistent with the national accounts aggregates (see the sources and methods documents). We also emphasize that value added data in this database are expressed in national prices.

Fundamental research

The data for Asia and Latin-America are based on:

• Marcel P. Timmer and Gaaitzen J. de Vries (2007), 'A Cross-Country Database For Sectoral Employment And Productivity In Asia And Latin America, 1950-2005', GGDC Research memorandum GD-98, Groningen Growth and Development Centre, August 2007

The data for Europe and the US are based on an update of:

• Bart van Ark (1996), Sectoral Growth Accounting and Structural Change in Post-War Europe, in B. van Ark and N.F.R. Crafts, eds., Quantitative Aspects of Post-War European Economic Growth, CEPR/Cambridge University Press, pp. 84-164

Examples of Research Based on this Database

Eduardo Lora and Carmen Pagés (2011), "Face-to-Face with Productivity",/Finance & Development/, March 2011, Vol. 48, No. 1,"

Margaret McMillan and Dani Rodrik (2011),"Globalization, Structural Change, and Productivity Growth, February 2011"

"Inter-American Development Bank (2010), The Age of Productivity: Transforming Economies from the Bottom Up". ed. Carmen Pagès. Palgrave Macmillan.

Timmer, Marcel P. and Gaaitzen J. de Vries (2009), "Structural Change and Growth Accelerations in Asia and Latin America: A New Sectoral Data Set" Cliometrica, vol 3 (issue 2) pp. 165-190."

Timmer, Marcel P. and Gaaitzen J. de Vries (2007), "A Cross-Country Database For Sectoral Employment And Productivity In Asia And Latin America, 1950-2005", Groningen Growth and Development Centre Research Memorandum GD-98, Groningen: University of Groningen.