Other countries with notable increases in manufacturing output per hour were Japan and Sweden. Productivity in the manufacturing sector rose by 3.8 percent in Japan and 3.0 percent in Sweden. All of these, except France, also reflected small upward revisions to original estimates. The estimate for France was unchanged. These data are a product of the BLS Foreign Labor Statistics program.
Data are subject to revision.
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