Input-Output Tables (IOTs) describe the sale and purchase relationships between producers and consumers within an economy. They can either show flows of final and intermediate goods and services defined according to industry outputs (industry × industry tables) or according to product outputs (product × product tables).
The OECD database of harmonised national IOTs takes the industry × industry approach. This allows better integration with collections of statistics compiled according to industrial activity such as R&D expenditure, employment, foreign direct investment and energy consumption. The OECD IOT database is a very useful empirical tool for economic research and structural analysis at the international level as it highlights inter-industrial relationships covering all sectors of the economy.
The latest set of OECD harmonised national Input-Output Tables presents matrices of inter-industrial flows of goods and services (produced domestically and imported, see Figure 1) in current prices (USD million), for all OECD countries and 28 non-member economies (including all G20 countries), covering the years 2005 to 2015 (see coverage, as well as main data sources used for IOT).
The following information is available in OECD.Stat
The tables are intimately related to OECD’s Inter-Country Input-Output (ICIO) Tables in which the diagonal blocks represent domestic transaction flows of intermediate goods and services across industries, while the off-diagonal blocks represent the inter-country flows of intermediates via exports and imports. The ICIO is the principle source used to produce the Trade in Value Added (TiVA) indicators.
Figure 1. Format of OECD harmonised national Input-Output Tables
Figure 2. Import content of exports, as a % of total exports
Related OECD databases for industrial analyses
CO2 embodied in International Trade
Inter-Country Input-Output Tables (ICIO)
STAN Database for Structural Analysis (STAN)
STAN Bilateral Trade by Industry and End-Use (BTDIxE)
STAN Analytical Business Enterprise Research & Development Database (ANBERD)
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