Research and Development Statistics

South Korea transformed its position, rising 306% from 2,324 researchers per million in 2000 to 9,435 in 2022, the highe...

Malaysia leads in 2023 at 59.42% of manufactured exports, having overtaken Singapore, which led in 2010 at 52.34% and no...

Chinese resident filings grew from 25,346 in 2000 to 1,426,644 in 2021, a rise of more than 56 times. The climb was almo...

Worldwide resident patent filings rose from 874,800 in 2000 to 2,385,200 in 2021, an increase of 173%. Growth was almost...

The ranking inverted completely. In 2000 Japan led with 387,364 resident filings, more than fifteen times China's 25,346...

India is the only series in this set that ends lower than it started. Research spending was 0.76 percent of GDP in 2000,...

Israel is the outlier of this data. It began at 3.81 percent of GDP in 2000, already higher than the United States would...

South Korea started this series level with the world average, at 2.05 percent of GDP in 2000, and ends it at 4.94 percen...

US research intensity was remarkably flat for the first fifteen years of this series, moving only between 2.49 percent o...

Chinese research intensity rose in every single year of this series, from 0.88 percent of GDP in 2000 to 2.58 percent in...

World research intensity spent the 2000s going nowhere. It peaked early at 2.06 percent of GDP in 2001, drifted down to...

Ireland leads with $153.2 billion in intellectual property payments, almost triple second-placed United States on $52.6...

The United States lead with $148.2 billion in intellectual property receipts, more than double second-placed Netherlands...

Hong Kong leads with 72.3% of its manufactured exports classed as high-technology, ahead of the Philippines on 64% and M...

China leads with 671,731 articles, nearly 218,000 more than the United States on 453,890 and more than the fourth throug...

South Korea leads with 9,435 researchers per million people, narrowly ahead of Denmark on 9,037 and Singapore on 8,782....

Israel's R&D spending leads the world at 5.6% of GDP, reflecting its unique blend of military innovation and a robust te...

Israel's dominance in R&D spending at 5.6% of GDP underscores its strategic focus on innovation, significantly outpacing...