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Research and Development Spending, 2007

Figures for 2007, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Research and Development Spending, 2007 covers 96 countries. Israel is highest, at 4.28533; Bosnia and Herzegovina is lowest, at 0.02521. The middle country reads 0.48578. Against 2006, 78 values changed (43 up, 35 down), 18 countries joined, 7 left.

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Research and Development Spending · Data for 2007

HighestIsrael

4.28533

LowestBosnia and Herzegovina

0.02521

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, 2007, 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 96 countries · select a heading to sort

Research and Development Spending, 2007: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1IsraelISRWestern Asia4.28533
2FinlandFINNorthern Europe3.33727
3JapanJPNEastern Asia3.29257
4SwedenSWENorthern Europe3.24176
5South KoreaKOREastern Asia2.75895
6United StatesUSANorthern America2.61516
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe2.53294
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2.50921
9AustriaAUTWestern Europe2.43360
10GermanyDEUWestern Europe2.41918
11SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia2.31986
12FranceFRAWestern Europe2.02815
13CanadaCANNorthern America1.90358
14BelgiumBELWestern Europe1.84999
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.66063
16United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.61830
17LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.57165
18NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.55795
19SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe1.43261
20ChinaCHNEastern Asia1.35321
21CzechiaCZEEastern Europe1.29670
22SpainESPSouthern Europe1.23823
23IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.23409
24New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand1.15764
25MontenegroMNESouthern Europe1.14521

02In 2007

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Israel4.28533
  2. 2Finland3.33727
  3. 3Japan3.29257
  4. 4Sweden3.24176
  5. 5South Korea2.75895

Lowest

  1. 96Bosnia and Herzegovina0.02521
  2. 95United States Virgin Islands0.02717
  3. 94Saudi Arabia0.04521
  4. 93Iraq0.04554
  5. 92Macau0.05684

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.48578. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032006 → 2007

Since 2006

What changed between 2006 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +18 / −7countries joined / left
  • 78values changed, of 78 in both
  • 43 · 35rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Iceland2.85265 → 2.53294−0.31971
  • Sweden3.47963 → 3.24176−0.23787
  • Venezuela0.31742 → 0.20110−0.11632
  • Slovenia1.54569 → 1.43261−0.11308
  • Latvia0.68285 → 0.58167−0.10118
+ Albania+ Burundi+ Burkina Faso+ Bermuda+ Chile+ Ethiopia+ Gabon+ Ghana+ Iraq+ Kenya+ Mali+ Nigeria+ New Zealand+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Palestine+ El Salvador+ Tanzania− American Samoa− Australia− Iran− Sri Lanka− Morocco− Mozambique− Malaysia

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 96 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) (2007). Research and Development Spending, 2007 [data set], describing 2007. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/rd-spending/2007

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07Questions

Research and Development Spending, 2007: questions and answers

Which country has the highest research and development spending in Research and Development Spending, 2007?

Israel, at 4.28533, of the 96 countries in the file.

What year does Research and Development Spending, 2007 describe?

2007.

How many countries does Research and Development Spending, 2007 cover?

96.

Where can I download Research and Development Spending, 2007?

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, 2007 the newest?

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

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