Capacity utilization
![Capacity utilization (black line) in manufacture in the United States, unemployment rate (red line, upside down, scale on the right), employment rate (dotted line)](/Images/godic/202501/03/Harddatafredgraph5852.png")
![Capacity utilization in manufacturing in the FRG and in the USA](/Images/godic/202501/03/KapaAuslUSABRDEngl5852.png")
Capacity utilization or capacity utilisation is the extent to which an enterprise or a nation actually uses its installed productive capacity. It is the relationship between output that is actually produced with the installed equipment, and the potential output which could be produced with it, if capacity was fully used.