Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 2002

Research and Development Spending, 2002

Figures for 2002, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Research and Development Spending, 2002 covers 94 countries. Israel is highest, at 3.99197; Zambia is lowest, at 0.00544. The middle country reads 0.38573. Against 2001, 77 values changed (41 up, 36 down), 17 countries joined, 5 left.

Download CSVCite this year

Research and Development Spending · Data for 2002

HighestIsrael

3.99197

LowestZambia

0.00544

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, 2002, 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 94 countries · select a heading to sort

Research and Development Spending, 2002: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1IsraelISRWestern Asia3.99197
2FinlandFINNorthern Europe3.25409
3JapanJPNEastern Asia2.96514
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe2.82120
5United StatesUSANorthern America2.54746
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2.43935
7GermanyDEUWestern Europe2.40856
8FranceFRAWestern Europe2.18758
9South KoreaKOREastern Asia2.13042
10AustriaAUTWestern Europe2.08110
11SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia2.03282
12CanadaCANNorthern America1.97170
13BelgiumBELWestern Europe1.90325
14AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1.74654
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.73931
16NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.62644
17United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.61383
18SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe1.46036
19RussiaRUSEastern Europe1.24652
20CzechiaCZEEastern Europe1.09272
21ItalyITASouthern Europe1.07704
22IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.05575
23ChinaCHNEastern Asia1.04418
24BrazilBRASouth America1.00967
25HungaryHUNEastern Europe0.98314

02In 2002

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Israel3.99197
  2. 2Finland3.25409
  3. 3Japan2.96514
  4. 4Iceland2.82120
  5. 5United States2.54746

Lowest

  1. 94Zambia0.00544
  2. 93Brunei0.01469
  3. 92Nicaragua0.03493
  4. 91Laos0.03710
  5. 90Honduras0.04181

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.38573. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +17 / −5countries joined / left
  • 77values changed, of 77 in both
  • 41 · 36rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Brunei+ Jordan+ Cambodia+ Laos+ Lesotho+ Malta+ Mozambique+ Malaysia+ Nicaragua+ Philippines+ Tunisia+ Uganda+ Uruguay+ United States Virgin Islands+ Vietnam+ Zambia− Greece− Indonesia− New Zealand− Sweden− South Africa

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 94 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) (2002). Research and Development Spending, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/rd-spending/2002

0628 held

Other years

07Questions

Research and Development Spending, 2002: questions and answers

Which country has the highest research and development spending in Research and Development Spending, 2002?

Israel, at 3.99197, of the 94 countries in the file.

What year does Research and Development Spending, 2002 describe?

2002.

How many countries does Research and Development Spending, 2002 cover?

94.

Where can I download Research and Development Spending, 2002?

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, 2002 the newest?

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

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.