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Research and Development Spending, 2000

Figures for 2000, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Research and Development Spending, 2000 covers 73 countries. Israel is highest, at 3.8132; Honduras is lowest, at 0.0445. The middle country reads 0.5842. Against 1999, 63 values changed (36 up, 27 down), 10 countries joined, 5 left.

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Research and Development Spending · Data for 2000

HighestIsrael

3.8132

LowestHonduras

0.0445

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Research and Development Spending, 2000, 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 73 countries · select a heading to sort

Research and Development Spending, 2000: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1IsraelISRWestern Asia3.8132
2FinlandFINNorthern Europe3.2427
3JapanJPNEastern Asia2.8584
4United StatesUSANorthern America2.6198
5IcelandISLNorthern Europe2.5720
6GermanyDEUWestern Europe2.3865
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe2.2639
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2.1877
9FranceFRAWestern Europe2.1007
10South KoreaKOREastern Asia2.0494
11BelgiumBELWestern Europe1.9362
12AustriaAUTWestern Europe1.8967
13CanadaCANNorthern America1.8585
14SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia1.8170
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.7891
16United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.6096
17LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.5831
18AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1.5720
19SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe1.3686
20CzechiaCZEEastern Europe1.1038
21IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.0838
22RussiaRUSEastern Europe1.0498
23BrazilBRASouth America1.0475
24CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe1.0422
25ItalyITASouthern Europe1.0010

02In 2000

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Israel3.8132
  2. 2Finland3.2427
  3. 3Japan2.8584
  4. 4United States2.6198
  5. 5Iceland2.5720

Lowest

  1. 73Honduras0.0445
  2. 72Indonesia0.0677
  3. 71Pakistan0.0954
  4. 70Madagascar0.1003
  5. 69Trinidad and Tobago0.1080

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.5842. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031999 → 2000

Since 1999

What changed between 1999 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +10 / −5countries joined / left
  • 63values changed, of 63 in both
  • 36 · 27rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Brazil+ Switzerland+ Colombia+ Honduras+ Indonesia+ Sri Lanka+ Luxembourg+ Malaysia+ Uzbekistan− Greece− Saint Lucia− Norway− New Zealand− Sweden

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.

How values are stored

  • The position is ours

    UIS publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 73 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 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2000). Research and Development Spending, 2000 [data set], describing 2000. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/rd-spending/2000

0628 held

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07Questions

Research and Development Spending, 2000: questions and answers

Which country has the highest research and development spending in Research and Development Spending, 2000?

Israel, at 3.8132, of the 73 countries in the file.

What year does Research and Development Spending, 2000 describe?

2000.

How many countries does Research and Development Spending, 2000 cover?

73.

Where can I download Research and Development Spending, 2000?

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, 2000 the newest?

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

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