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Research and Development Spending, 2006

Figures for 2006, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Research and Development Spending, 2006 covers 85 countries. Israel is highest, at 4.014; Bosnia and Herzegovina is lowest, at 0.020. The middle country reads 0.571. Against 2005, 78 values changed (45 up, 33 down), 7 countries joined, 15 left.

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Research and Development Spending · Data for 2006

HighestIsrael

4.014

LowestBosnia and Herzegovina

0.020

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, 2006, 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 85 countries · select a heading to sort

Research and Development Spending, 2006: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1IsraelISRWestern Asia4.014
2SwedenSWENorthern Europe3.480
3FinlandFINNorthern Europe3.333
4JapanJPNEastern Asia3.228
5IcelandISLNorthern Europe2.853
6South KoreaKOREastern Asia2.615
7United StatesUSANorthern America2.545
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe2.430
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2.399
10AustriaAUTWestern Europe2.376
11AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand2.179
12SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia2.117
13FranceFRAWestern Europe2.053
14CanadaCANNorthern America1.943
15BelgiumBELWestern Europe1.823
16NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.732
17LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.649
18United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.576
19SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe1.546
20NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.450
21ChinaCHNEastern Asia1.349
22MontenegroMNESouthern Europe1.230
23CzechiaCZEEastern Europe1.226
24IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.199
25SpainESPSouthern Europe1.176

02In 2006

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Israel4.014
  2. 2Sweden3.480
  3. 3Finland3.333
  4. 4Japan3.228
  5. 5Iceland2.853

Lowest

  1. 85Bosnia and Herzegovina0.020
  2. 84United States Virgin Islands0.031
  3. 83Saudi Arabia0.042
  4. 82Guatemala0.050
  5. 81DR Congo0.060

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.571. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +7 / −15countries joined / left
  • 78values changed, of 78 in both
  • 45 · 33rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Costa Rica+ Ecuador+ Sri Lanka+ Morocco+ Mozambique+ Malaysia− Burkina Faso− Botswana− Algeria− Ethiopia− Georgia− Guam− Monaco− Mauritius− New Zealand− Pakistan− Philippines− Paraguay− Sudan− Seychelles− Zambia

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 85 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) (2006). Research and Development Spending, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/rd-spending/2006

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07Questions

Research and Development Spending, 2006: questions and answers

Which country has the highest research and development spending in Research and Development Spending, 2006?

Israel, at 4.014, of the 85 countries in the file.

What year does Research and Development Spending, 2006 describe?

2006.

How many countries does Research and Development Spending, 2006 cover?

85.

Where can I download Research and Development Spending, 2006?

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, 2006 the newest?

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

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