For 2012:

• Labour productivity increased 1.0 percent.
• This was due to more growth in output (up 2.7 percent) than in labour input (up 1.7 percent).
• Multifactor productivity (MFP) grew 0.7 percent.

Over the period from 2008 to 2012, average annual changes were:        

• Labour productivity rose 0.6 percent annually (compared with annual growth of 1.4 percent for 1996–2012).
• After accounting for differences in the skill composition of workers, labour productivity rose 0.4 percent annually.
• MFP fell 0.5 percent annually (compared with annual growth of 0.6 percent for 1996–2012).
• Capital productivity fell 2.0 percent annually (compared with annual falls of 0.6 percent for 1996–2012).