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DCMS Sector Economic Estimates: Productivity

This series brings together the most up to date DCMS sector productivity datasets.

Headline finding

In  2023, output per hour in the DCMS sectors (excluding tourism and civil society) was around

£35

About

DCMS estimates of productivity provide estimates of output per hour in sectors within DCMS’s remit. This enables assessment of the productivity of DCMS sectors using GVA as the output measure. Estimates of output per hour are not available in the latest publication due to a lack of available data.

All estimates on this page represent the latest version according to updates in methodology.

Included estimates:

  • Output per hour in the DCMS sectors, 2019 to 2023

For information on how these estimates are produced please see the relevant technical report for each release.

Latest release:

DCMS and Digital Economic Estimates: labour productivity to 2023 (provisional)

DCMS Sector Annual Productivity Estimates

Available for 2019 and 2022

Updates to this page

Published 28 March 2024
Last updated 20 March 2025 show all updates
  1. Updated to include latest estimates.

  2. First published.