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Research and Development Spending, 2003

Figures for 2003, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Research and Development Spending, 2003 covers 93 countries. Israel is highest, at 3.7614; Zambia is lowest, at 0.0085. The middle country reads 0.5080. Against 2002, 80 values changed (44 up, 36 down), 13 countries joined, 14 left.

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Research and Development Spending · Data for 2003

HighestIsrael

3.7614

LowestZambia

0.0085

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, 2003, 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 93 countries · select a heading to sort

Research and Development Spending, 2003: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1IsraelISRWestern Asia3.7614
2SwedenSWENorthern Europe3.5823
3FinlandFINNorthern Europe3.2990
4JapanJPNEastern Asia2.9932
5IcelandISLNorthern Europe2.7055
6United StatesUSANorthern America2.5501
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2.5071
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe2.4423
9South KoreaKOREastern Asia2.1966
10AustriaAUTWestern Europe2.1870
11FranceFRAWestern Europe2.1309
12SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia1.9968
13CanadaCANNorthern America1.9678
14BelgiumBELWestern Europe1.8412
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.7767
16NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.6757
17LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.6235
18United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.5813
19RussiaRUSEastern Europe1.2860
20SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe1.2596
21New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand1.1489
22CzechiaCZEEastern Europe1.1382
23IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.1244
24ChinaCHNEastern Asia1.1047
25UkraineUKREastern Europe1.0717

02In 2003

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Israel3.7614
  2. 2Sweden3.5823
  3. 3Finland3.2990
  4. 4Japan2.9932
  5. 5Iceland2.7055

Lowest

  1. 93Zambia0.0085
  2. 92Brunei0.0169
  3. 91Bosnia and Herzegovina0.0183
  4. 90United States Virgin Islands0.0378
  5. 89Honduras0.0422

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.5080. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032002 → 2003

Since 2002

What changed between 2002 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +13 / −14countries joined / left
  • 80values changed, of 80 in both
  • 44 · 36rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ American Samoa+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Costa Rica+ Faroe Islands+ Greece+ Guam+ Luxembourg+ Moldova+ Montenegro+ New Zealand+ Saudi Arabia+ Sweden+ South Africa− Australia− Bolivia− Jamaica− Jordan− Cambodia− Laos− Myanmar− Mozambique− Malaysia− Nicaragua− Pakistan− Uruguay− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Vietnam

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 93 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) (2003). Research and Development Spending, 2003 [data set], describing 2003. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/rd-spending/2003

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07Questions

Research and Development Spending, 2003: questions and answers

Which country has the highest research and development spending in Research and Development Spending, 2003?

Israel, at 3.7614, of the 93 countries in the file.

What year does Research and Development Spending, 2003 describe?

2003.

How many countries does Research and Development Spending, 2003 cover?

93.

Where can I download Research and Development Spending, 2003?

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, 2003 the newest?

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

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