Long-Term Productivity Database

Antonin Bergeaud, Gilbert Cette and Rémy Lecat

Welcome to the Long Term Productivity project website. Here you will find the latest version of the database on long-term productivity.

2026 version of the BCL database available for download.

This new version contains information from at least 1890 and until 2024 on GDP per capita, Labor productivity, TFP and labot input per capita for 23 OECD countries.

Posted by Antonin Bergeaud on February 19, 2026

The Economic of Creative Destruction, new book edited by U. Akcigit and J. Van Reenen

This new book is available for sales and gather many papers on growth and innovation including "Productivity Growth and Real Interest Rates: A Circular Relationship" by Antonin Bergeaud, Gilbert Cette, and Rémy Lecat.

Posted by Antonin Bergeaud on September 5, 2023

2022 version of the BCL database available for download.

This new version contains information from at least 1890 and until 2022 on GDP per capita, Labor productivity, TFP, capital intensity and average age of equipment for 23 OECD countries.

Posted by Antonin Bergeaud on September 1, 2023

Working paper and Projection Tool for Energy Transition Pathways by Claire Alestra, Gilbert Cette, Valerie Chouard and Remy Lecat.

This new working paper provides a tool to build climate change scenarios to forecast Gross Domestic Product (GDP), modelling both GDP damage due to climate change and the GDP impact of mitigating measures.
Working paper » Access the tool »

Posted by Antonin Bergeaud on May 25, 2020