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Research and Development Spending, 2015

Figures for 2015, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Research and Development Spending, 2015 covers 102 countries. Israel is highest, at 4.2976; Honduras is lowest, at 0.0150. The middle country reads 0.6045. Against 2014, 83 values changed (54 up, 29 down), 19 countries joined, 8 left.

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Research and Development Spending · Data for 2015

HighestIsrael

4.2976

LowestHonduras

0.0150

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, 2015, 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 102 countries · select a heading to sort

Research and Development Spending, 2015: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1IsraelISRWestern Asia4.2976
2South KoreaKOREastern Asia3.7891
3SwedenSWENorthern Europe3.2409
4JapanJPNEastern Asia3.2407
5AustriaAUTWestern Europe3.0692
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe3.0642
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe3.0458
8FinlandFINNorthern Europe2.8883
9GermanyDEUWestern Europe2.8773
10United StatesUSANorthern America2.7733
11BelgiumBELWestern Europe2.4350
12United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe2.2757
13FranceFRAWestern Europe2.2240
14SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe2.2161
15IcelandISLNorthern Europe2.1814
16SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia2.1745
17NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe2.1179
18ChinaCHNEastern Asia2.0170
19NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.9235
20AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1.9197
21CzechiaCZEEastern Europe1.9060
22CanadaCANNorthern America1.6936
23EstoniaESTNorthern Europe1.4413
24HungaryHUNEastern Europe1.3388
25ItalyITASouthern Europe1.3321

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Israel4.2976
  2. 2South Korea3.7891
  3. 3Sweden3.2409
  4. 4Japan3.2407
  5. 5Austria3.0692

Lowest

  1. 102Honduras0.0150
  2. 101Syria0.0194
  3. 100Guatemala0.0306
  4. 99Iraq0.0402
  5. 98Lesotho0.0510

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.6045. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +19 / −8countries joined / left
  • 83values changed, of 83 in both
  • 54 · 29rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Switzerland+ DR Congo+ Honduras+ Iran+ Cambodia+ Lesotho+ Mali+ Mozambique+ New Zealand+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Puerto Rico+ Qatar+ Senegal+ Eswatini+ Syria+ Turkmenistan+ Vietnam− Burkina Faso− Bahrain− Ecuador− Madagascar− Namibia− Togo− Uganda− Venezuela

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 102 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) (2015). Research and Development Spending, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/rd-spending/2015

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07Questions

Research and Development Spending, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest research and development spending in Research and Development Spending, 2015?

Israel, at 4.2976, of the 102 countries in the file.

What year does Research and Development Spending, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Research and Development Spending, 2015 cover?

102.

Where can I download Research and Development Spending, 2015?

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, 2015 the newest?

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

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