What the change in gross domestic product per hour worked was in each year since 1975.

Data on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per hour worked are produced by the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Data are available on a regional basis since 1996, therefore changes in GDP per hour can only be expressed from 1997 to the most recent year available (2003). Table 1 highlights the respective growth in GDP per hour per year over the period.
Table 1: Output (Gross Value Added) per hour worked in Scotland
Year
| 1996
| 1997
| 1998
| 1999
| 2000
| 2001
| 2002
| 2003

Index
| 100
| 101.5
| 102.2
| 104.0
| 107.1
| 106.2
| 108.6
| 111.8

Growth rate
|
| 1.5%
| 0.8%
| 1.7%
| 3.0%
| -0.8%
| 2.3%
| 2.9%

Sources: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/tsdataset.asp?vlnk=4841,
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/Product.asp?vlnk=8095
Although GDP per hour is widely recognised as a more accurate measure than GDP per worker, there are difficulties in making this data internationally comparable. For this reason the ONS recommends that the data are treated as experimental and that GDP per worker continues to be used as the standard measure for productivity.