{"id":381360,"date":"2026-04-15T21:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/381360\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:39:12","slug":"the-most-productive-countries-in-the-world-%f0%9f%94%a5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/381360\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Productive Countries in the World \ud83d\udd25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What We&#8217;re Showing<\/p>\n<p>Using data from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/content\/dam\/oecd\/en\/publications\/reports\/2025\/06\/oecd-compendium-of-productivity-indicators-2025_f1a7de9f\/b024d9e1-en.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: rgb(162, 162, 162);\">OECD<\/a>, this visualization highlights where workers appear most productive\u2014and what drives those differences.<\/p>\n<p>Key TakeawaysIreland ranks #1 in GDP per hour at $151, far ahead of its peers\u2014but the figure is heavily influenced by multinational corporations.European economies dominate the top of the ranking, with Norway and Luxembourg also exceeding $120 per hour.The U.S. generates $97 per hour\u2014above average, but behind many smaller, high-income economies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What We&#8217;re Showing Using data from the\u00a0OECD, this visualization highlights where workers appear most productive\u2014and what drives those&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-381360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}