[lbo-talk] Need help finding statistics

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Feb 3 06:25:19 PST 2005


Lou Johnson wrote:


>I'm putting together a presentation and having trouble
>finding historical stats on productivity increases and
>GNP increases approximately 1920's - present (and/or
>graphs of same).
>
>And general info along the lines of "in 1920 the
>average american worker produced $ amount in goods and
>services; in 2005 average worker produces $ amount of
>goods & services."

In 1996 dollars, GDP per worker:

1925 $23,055 2004 77,991

chg +238%



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