Table 2.Manufacturing sector: indexes of productivity and related
measures, 1987-2010
Indexes 2005=100
Productivity Inputs
Output Output Multi- Purc- Comb-
per per factor Sect- Cap- hased ined
hour unit Prod- oral ital busi- units
of all of uctiv out- Serv- Ene- Mater- ness of all
Year persons capital ity1 put Hours2 ices rgy ials services inputs3
1987 51.2 92.8 76.6 63.1 123.2 67.9 83.4 63.9 71.5 82.3
1988 52.3 95.9 78.2 66.3 126.9 69.1 86.8 64.5 77.8 84.8
1989 52.8 95.2 77.8 67.4 127.7 70.8 86.5 65.8 82.3 86.6
1990 54.0 92.4 77.2 67.2 124.5 72.7 88.1 66.9 83.5 87.0
1991 55.4 88.8 76.9 66.0 119.3 74.3 87.9 66.6 82.9 85.8
1992 57.5 89.7 76.4 68.2 118.7 76.0 87.0 72.4 89.0 89.2
1993 58.9 91.1 78.4 70.9 120.3 77.8 89.9 72.9 89.7 90.4
1994 61.0 94.1 80.4 75.1 123.1 79.8 93.2 76.1 93.2 93.3
1995 63.8 95.7 81.9 79.0 123.9 82.6 95.8 80.2 97.8 96.5
1996 66.1 95.1 82.1 81.7 123.6 85.9 93.3 87.4 97.4 99.6
1997 69.7 97.7 84.3 87.7 125.8 89.8 91.4 94.4 101.5 104.0
1998 73.5 98.4 85.4 92.3 125.5 93.8 94.9 102.4 104.9 108.1
1999 77.1 99.0 86.4 96.1 124.7 97.1 117.0 108.7 105.9 111.2
2000 80.5 99.5 89.5 99.0 123.1 99.5 127.6 106.6 104.4 110.6
2001 81.9 93.8 88.6 94.2 115.0 100.5 139.4 99.8 102.6 106.3
2002 87.9 93.3 91.6 93.9 106.9 100.7 107.8 100.8 99.3 102.6
2003 93.3 94.5 94.9 94.9 101.6 100.4 96.8 99.2 98.5 99.9
2004 95.5 96.9 98.5 96.5 101.1 99.6 90.7 98.4 92.4 98.0
2005 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
2006 101.0 100.9 102.3 101.7 100.7 100.7 95.8 98.9 97.3 99.3
2007 104.9 101.7 103.2 103.8 99.0 102.1 96.4 98.8 105.7 100.6
2008 104.3 94.8 102.7 99.1 95.1 104.6 97.1 93.7 95.6 96.5
2009 104.3 82.5 99.8 86.3 82.7 104.7 73.7 81.5 86.8 86.5
2010 111.1 88.0 107.4 91.9 82.7 104.4 75.9 78.5 87.2 85.6
1. Output per combined units of hours, capital services, energy, materials,
and purchased business services.
2. Hours at work of all persons.
3. Combined units of hours, capital services, energy, materials, and
purchased business services, chained superlative index.
Source: The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) develops productivity measures
using output data published by the Bureau of the Census, U.S.
Department of Commerce, and modified by BLS. Compensation and hours
data are from the BLS. Capital measures are based on data supplied
by the BEA, U.S. Department of Commerce. See also Technical Notes in
this release.