In his blog, Philip Su - dev manager at MSN Search - gives intersting numbers on the productivity of developers in the USA:
USA 1999 -- 9000 lines of code per year (9 KLOC/year)USA 2005 -- 6200 lines of code per year (6.2 KLOC/year)
Windows Vista developers -- ~1000 lines per year.
Keep in mind that:
Anyway, it's interesting how the era of downsizing, budgeting, stalled salaries and all that other stuff in 2000-2003 impacted productivity: from 9 to 6.2 KLOC/year, about 30% less!
I wonder, what are the numbers for Russia, India and China?
PS. If somebody is interested, I did 9 KLOCs in the last 3 months. Although, quantity is not the most important thing anyway, quality is usually the key. Although, seems like I already bragged about it in the previous post.