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Research and Development Spending, 2019

Figures for 2019, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Research and Development Spending, 2019 covers 98 countries. Liechtenstein is highest, at 5.8683; Guatemala is lowest, at 0.0264. The middle country reads 0.6814. Against 2018, 85 values changed (55 up, 30 down), 13 countries joined, 8 left.

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Research and Development Spending · Data for 2019

HighestLiechtenstein

5.8683

LowestGuatemala

0.0264

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, 2019, 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 98 countries · select a heading to sort

Research and Development Spending, 2019: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe5.8683
2IsraelISRWestern Asia5.3553
3South KoreaKOREastern Asia4.3638
4SwedenSWENorthern Europe3.3985
5JapanJPNEastern Asia3.2182
6BelgiumBELWestern Europe3.1515
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe3.1498
8AustriaAUTWestern Europe3.1441
9United StatesUSANorthern America3.1430
10GermanyDEUWestern Europe3.1126
11DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2.9061
12FinlandFINNorthern Europe2.8153
13United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe2.6707
14IcelandISLNorthern Europe2.3402
15ChinaCHNEastern Asia2.2014
16FranceFRAWestern Europe2.1967
17NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe2.1404
18NorwayNORNorthern Europe2.1360
19SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe2.0573
20CzechiaCZEEastern Europe1.8955
21SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia1.8885
22AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1.8283
23CanadaCANNorthern America1.7558
24EstoniaESTNorthern Europe1.5909
25HungaryHUNEastern Europe1.4647

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Liechtenstein5.8683
  2. 2Israel5.3553
  3. 3South Korea4.3638
  4. 4Sweden3.3985
  5. 5Japan3.2182

Lowest

  1. 98Guatemala0.0264
  2. 97Iraq0.0327
  3. 96Honduras0.0600
  4. 95Trinidad and Tobago0.0601
  5. 94Bolivia0.0664

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.6814. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +13 / −8countries joined / left
  • 85values changed, of 85 in both
  • 55 · 30rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Burkina Faso+ Bolivia+ Switzerland+ Iran+ Liechtenstein+ Mali+ Malawi+ Nigeria+ New Zealand+ Pakistan+ Rwanda+ Vietnam− Burundi− Brunei− Costa Rica− Gambia− Sri Lanka− Mauritania− Malaysia− Qatar

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 98 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) (2019). Research and Development Spending, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/rd-spending/2019

0628 held

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07Questions

Research and Development Spending, 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest research and development spending in Research and Development Spending, 2019?

Liechtenstein, at 5.8683, of the 98 countries in the file.

What year does Research and Development Spending, 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Research and Development Spending, 2019 cover?

98.

Where can I download Research and Development Spending, 2019?

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, 2019 the newest?

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

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