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Longseries
enplde

R&D spend

Gross R&D spend as % of GDP. Bank / UNESCO. Thinner than GDP; some years blank.

percent

The netdigitalGDP

The file

Gross domestic R&D expenditure, % of GDP. UNESCO / OECD / Eurostat via the Bank.

The indicator

GB.XPD.RSDV.GD.ZS. Thinner than GDP per capita; some years blank.

What the numbers show

A research share is not a patent count. Keep the blanks; do not interpolate.

Source
World Bank Open Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Last publisher update
2026-07-13
Retrieved
2026-09-15
Warehouse version
v21

Cite

Longseries, “R&D spend”. World Bank Open Data (GB.XPD.RSDV.GD.ZS), 1996–2023, Brazil, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United States, World. Retrieved 2026-09-15. CC BY 4.0. Warehouse v21. https://longseries.com/en/d/research-share/

No revisions in this copy yet — cron will append them when a publisher changes a past value.

Latest values

Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.

15 places — sorted by latest value
CountryYearValue
Sweden20233.6
United States20233.4
Japan20233.4
Germany20233.2
United Kingdom20232.7
World20232.6
China20232.6
Netherlands20232.3
The rest of the places (7)
Remaining 7 places
France20232.2
Czechia20231.8
Poland20231.6
Spain20231.5
Italy20231.4
Brazil20231.2
India20200.6

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