Research and development expenditure (% of GDP)

Gross domestic expenditures on research and development (R&D), expressed as a percent of GDP. They include both capital and current expenditures in the four main sectors: Business enterprise, Government, Higher education and Private non-profit. R&D covers basic research, applied research, and experimental development.
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Country Research and development expenditure (% of GDP) Rank Year

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Sources

Data published by
World Bank – World Development Indicators

Data publisher's source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

Link
https://datatopics.worldbank.org/world-development-indicators/

Last update by data publisher
2020-12-16

Variable time span
1996 : 2020