The basic goal of this piece of research is to investigate the extent and nature of productivity growth in East Asian countries using the nonparametric frontier techniques. One major step has consisted in decomposing the total factor productivity into technical efficiency change and technological change. In so doing, we have used the output-oriented Malmquist productivity index method for 8 Asian economies over the period spanning 1990–2019. The results obtained indicate that total factor productivity has witnessed an average growth of 0.6% percent over the said period. The research done has revealed that the productivity growth which has been identified is attributed to the improvements carried in the technology (or frontier-shift) rather than any improvements or changes brought about in the efficiency and its components.