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Research and Development Spending, 2023

Figures for 2023, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Research and Development Spending, 2023 covers 84 countries. Israel is highest, at 6.34589; Guatemala is lowest, at 0.00609. The middle country reads 0.81394. Against 2022, 72 values changed (48 up, 24 down), 12 countries joined, 12 left.

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Research and Development Spending · Data for 2023

HighestIsrael

6.34589

LowestGuatemala

0.00609

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, 2023, 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 84 countries · select a heading to sort

Research and Development Spending, 2023: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1IsraelISRWestern Asia6.34589
2LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe6.00984
3South KoreaKOREastern Asia4.94352
4SwedenSWENorthern Europe3.59978
5United StatesUSANorthern America3.44716
6JapanJPNEastern Asia3.44125
7BelgiumBELWestern Europe3.27235
8AustriaAUTWestern Europe3.25517
9SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe3.22178
10GermanyDEUWestern Europe3.15390
11FinlandFINNorthern Europe3.09380
12DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe3.04841
13United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe2.67614
14IcelandISLNorthern Europe2.64005
15ChinaCHNEastern Asia2.57729
16NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe2.26719
17FranceFRAWestern Europe2.17832
18SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe2.13385
19NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.85142
20EstoniaESTNorthern Europe1.83878
21CzechiaCZEEastern Europe1.83369
22CanadaCANNorthern America1.81048
23PortugalPRTSouthern Europe1.69491
24IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.58829
25PolandPOLEastern Europe1.55525

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Israel6.34589
  2. 2Liechtenstein6.00984
  3. 3South Korea4.94352
  4. 4Sweden3.59978
  5. 5United States3.44716

Lowest

  1. 84Guatemala0.00609
  2. 83Myanmar0.02307
  3. 82Kyrgyzstan0.05414
  4. 81Turkmenistan0.09000
  5. 80Lesotho0.09453

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.81394. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −12countries joined / left
  • 72values changed, of 72 in both
  • 48 · 24rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Kenya0.40651 → 0.80427+0.39776
  • Norway1.55081 → 1.85142+0.30061
  • Denmark2.86709 → 3.04841+0.18132
  • Israel6.17831 → 6.34589+0.16758
  • Sweden3.47239 → 3.59978+0.12739

Fell most

+ Burkina Faso+ Bhutan+ Switzerland+ Algeria+ Liechtenstein+ Lesotho+ Mali+ New Zealand+ Pakistan+ Rwanda+ Uganda+ Vietnam− Albania− Andorra− Chile− Republic of the Congo− Sri Lanka− Mongolia− Malaysia− Namibia− Singapore− Syria− Trinidad and Tobago− South Africa

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 84 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) (2023). Research and Development Spending, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/rd-spending/2023

0628 held

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07Questions

Research and Development Spending, 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest research and development spending in Research and Development Spending, 2023?

Israel, at 6.34589, of the 84 countries in the file.

What year does Research and Development Spending, 2023 describe?

2023.

How many countries does Research and Development Spending, 2023 cover?

84.

Where can I download Research and Development Spending, 2023?

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, 2023 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-10, when it was read from the publisher.

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