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Research and Development Spending, 2001

Figures for 2001, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Research and Development Spending, 2001 covers 82 countries. Israel is highest, at 4.053; Honduras is lowest, at 0.038. The middle country reads 0.532. Against 2000, 65 values changed (42 up, 23 down), 17 countries joined, 8 left.

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Research and Development Spending · Data for 2001

HighestIsrael

4.053

LowestHonduras

0.038

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Research and Development Spending, 2001, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 82 countries · select a heading to sort

Research and Development Spending, 2001: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1IsraelISRWestern Asia4.053
2SwedenSWENorthern Europe3.872
3FinlandFINNorthern Europe3.194
4JapanJPNEastern Asia2.923
5IcelandISLNorthern Europe2.840
6United StatesUSANorthern America2.637
7GermanyDEUWestern Europe2.379
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2.323
9South KoreaKOREastern Asia2.199
10FranceFRAWestern Europe2.149
11BelgiumBELWestern Europe2.033
12CanadaCANNorthern America2.021
13SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia2.009
14AustriaAUTWestern Europe2.003
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.792
16United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.595
17NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.560
18SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe1.482
19RussiaRUSEastern Europe1.177
20New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand1.100
21CzechiaCZEEastern Europe1.093
22BrazilBRASouth America1.062
23IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.052
24ItalyITASouthern Europe1.037
25UkraineUKREastern Europe0.989

02In 2001

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Israel4.053
  2. 2Sweden3.872
  3. 3Finland3.194
  4. 4Japan2.923
  5. 5Iceland2.840

Lowest

  1. 82Honduras0.038
  2. 81Saint Vincent and the Grenadines0.040
  3. 80Indonesia0.048
  4. 79Jamaica0.049
  5. 78Ecuador0.054

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.532. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032000 → 2001

Since 2000

What changed between 2000 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +17 / −8countries joined / left
  • 65values changed, of 65 in both
  • 42 · 23rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burkina Faso+ Algeria+ Ecuador+ Greece+ Greenland+ Iran+ Jamaica+ Macau+ Morocco+ Norway+ New Zealand+ Paraguay+ Sweden+ Seychelles+ Tajikistan+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines+ South Africa− Australia− Switzerland− Costa Rica− Egypt− Sri Lanka− Luxembourg− Malaysia− Uruguay

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • The position is ours

    UIS publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 82 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2001). Research and Development Spending, 2001 [data set], describing 2001. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/rd-spending/2001

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07Questions

Research and Development Spending, 2001: questions and answers

Which country has the highest research and development spending in Research and Development Spending, 2001?

Israel, at 4.053, of the 82 countries in the file.

What year does Research and Development Spending, 2001 describe?

2001.

How many countries does Research and Development Spending, 2001 cover?

82.

Where can I download Research and Development Spending, 2001?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Research and Development Spending, 2001 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Research and Development Spending, 2023.

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