UK Productivity
How much the UK produces for each hour worked, a core measure of how efficiently the economy converts labour into output.
100.1
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Q1 1971 to Q1 2026
Source: ONS series LZVB (PRDY) · output per hour worked, index 2023 = 100, seasonally adjusted.
UK Productivity in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In the UK, the productivity rose by 0.5 pts over the year to Q1 2026, from 99.6 in Q1 2025.
It is the highest reading since Q3 2023.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 98.3 in Q3 2024 to 100.6 in Q3 2022.
Its average since Q1 1971 is 75.3, and the latest reading is above that.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- ONS
- Series
- LZVB
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Unit
- index
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Q1 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-11-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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