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United States – R&D Spending 2002

Name: United States R&D Spending 2002
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Gross domestic expenditure on research and development as a share of GDP. Covers basic research, applied research, and experimental development. · World Bank

2.55% −0.09% from 2001 G20 rank: 5th

United States's r&d spending was 2.55% in 2002, decreased +0.09% from 2.64% in 2001. This was the 5th highest in the G20.

G20 Ranking – 2002▾

R&D Spending by Country – 2002
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Israel	4.00%	-1.6%
2nd	Finland	3.25%	1.9%
3rd	Japan	2.97%	1.4%
4th	Iceland	2.82%	-0.7%
5th	United States	2.55%	-3.4%
6th	Denmark	2.44%	5.0%
7th	Germany	2.44%	1.3%
8th	Korea	2.21%	-3.1%
9th	France	2.17%	1.7%
10th	Austria	2.07%	3.7%
11th	Singapore	2.03%	1.2%
12th	Canada	1.97%	-2.4%
13th	Belgium	1.90%	-6.4%
14th	European Union	1.79%	-1.8%
15th	Australia	1.75%	11.1%
16th	Netherlands	1.75%	-2.8%
17th	Norway	1.63%	4.2%
18th	United Kingdom	1.61%	1.2%
19th	Slovenia	1.44%	-1.7%
20th	Russian Federation	1.25%	5.9%
21st	Czechia	1.10%	0.0%
22nd	Italy	1.08%	3.9%
23rd	China	1.06%	12.5%
24th	Ireland	1.06%	0.4%
25th	Brazil	1.01%	-4.9%
26th	Hungary	0.98%	7.7%
27th	Ukraine	0.96%	-2.7%
28th	Spain	0.96%	8.0%
29th	Croatia	0.94%	2.5%
30th	India	0.73%	-1.4%
31st	Portugal	0.72%	-5.6%
32nd	Estonia	0.71%	2.0%
33rd	Lithuania	0.66%	-1.5%
34th	Malaysia	0.65%	39.1%
35th	Serbia	0.64%	110.4%
36th	Belarus	0.62%	-12.4%
37th	Hong Kong SAR, China	0.58%	8.4%
38th	Cuba	0.56%	-0.2%
39th	Slovak Republic	0.56%	-9.8%
40th	Poland	0.56%	-10.4%
41st	Greenland	0.56%	5.5%
42nd	Tunisia	0.54%	–
43rd	Türkiye	0.51%	-2.6%
44th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	0.50%	-1.3%
45th	Morocco	0.47%	-13.6%
46th	Bulgaria	0.46%	3.9%
47th	Latvia	0.41%	1.4%
48th	Argentina	0.39%	-8.4%
49th	Seychelles	0.38%	-4.3%
50th	Romania	0.38%	-3.6%
51st	Uganda	0.37%	–
52nd	Mauritius	0.36%	1.5%
53rd	Mozambique	0.36%	–
54th	Panama	0.34%	-5.1%
55th	Algeria	0.34%	59.3%
56th	Mexico	0.34%	9.5%
57th	Jordan	0.34%	–
58th	Sudan	0.32%	-14.0%
59th	Azerbaijan	0.30%	-11.3%
60th	Burkina Faso	0.30%	79.1%
61st	Uzbekistan	0.29%	-15.0%
62nd	Cyprus	0.28%	18.0%
63rd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	0.28%	-5.8%
64th	Kazakhstan	0.26%	15.9%
65th	Armenia	0.25%	-9.8%
66th	Mongolia	0.25%	-5.9%
67th	Malta	0.25%	–
68th	North Macedonia	0.24%	-16.5%
69th	Uruguay	0.24%	13.8%
70th	Thailand	0.23%	-8.6%
71st	Madagascar	0.20%	11.0%
72nd	Kyrgyz Republic	0.20%	15.2%
73rd	Viet Nam	0.19%	–
74th	Georgia	0.19%	-22.1%
75th	Kuwait	0.18%	0.7%
76th	Pakistan	0.16%	30.8%
77th	Myanmar	0.16%	127.0%
78th	Colombia	0.16%	17.1%
79th	Philippines	0.13%	–
80th	Trinidad and Tobago	0.13%	26.5%
81st	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	0.11%	184.2%
82nd	Peru	0.11%	-4.3%
83rd	Paraguay	0.07%	11.9%
84th	Tajikistan	0.07%	-21.1%
85th	Macao SAR, China	0.07%	11.8%
86th	Virgin Islands (US)	0.07%	–
87th	Jamaica	0.06%	24.2%
88th	Ecuador	0.06%	7.2%
89th	Cambodia	0.05%	–
90th	Lesotho	0.04%	–
91st	Honduras	0.04%	9.1%
92nd	Lao PDR	0.04%	–
93rd	Nicaragua	0.03%	-46.3%
94th	Brunei Darussalam	0.02%	–
95th	Zambia	0.01%	-26.2%

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