India Research and Development Spending as a Share of GDP by Year 2000-2020

About This Dataset

Indian gross domestic spending on research and development as a percentage of GDP, by year, from 2000 to 2020. Source is the World Bank series compiled from UNESCO Institute for Statistics data. The World Bank publishes no later year for India, so the series stops at 2020 rather than being extended with estimates.

✨ AI Insight

India is the only series in this set that ends lower than it started. Research spending was 0.76 percent of GDP in 2000, peaked at 0.86 percent in 2008, and fell to 0.65 percent by 2020 - down roughly a quarter from the 2008 high and 15 percent from where it began. No year after 2008 comes in above the one before it, so the decline runs for twelve straight years. Read this as a ratio and not a budget: the Indian economy grew quickly over the same period, so research spending can rise in rupee terms while this line falls. The gap with China, which reached 2.58 percent by 2023, opened up almost entirely within these twenty years.

Source: World Bank / UNESCO Institute for Statistics

Key Findings

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2008 leads with 1 in 2000-2020.

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Average value in 2000-2020: 1 · median: 1.

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Gap in 2000-2020: 2008 is 1.3× larger than 2020.