List of countries by spending on research and development

This is a list of countries sorted by their total government and private spending on research and development .

List of countries by spending on research and development

Different countries according to expenditure for research and development in million euros at the last determinable point in time as well as the share of expenditure as a share of economic output ( gross domestic product (GDP)). The source of the data is Eurostat .

rank	country	R&D expenditure		year
		in million euros	in% of GDP
1	United States	453.261	2.79%	2015
2	People's Republic of China	203.202	2.07%	2015
3	Japan	129,819	3.28%	2016
4th	Germany	99.052	3.02%	2017
5	South Korea	52,493	4.23%	2015
6th	France	50,099	2.25%	2016
7th	United Kingdom	38,898	1.67%	2017
8th	Italy	23,355	1.35%	2017
9	Switzerland	20,656	3.37%	2016
10	Sweden	15,811	3.33%	2017
11	Netherlands	14,676	1.99%	2017
12	Spain	14.052	1.20%	2017
13	Russia	13,437	1.10%	2016
14th	Austria	11,679	3.16%	2017
15th	Belgium	11,336	2.58%	2017
16	Denmark	8,948	3.06%	2017
17th	Norway	7,474	2.11%	2017
18th	Turkey	7,245	0.96%	2017
19th	Finland	6,173	2.76%	2017
20th	Poland	4,834	1.03%	2017
21st	Czech Republic	3,433	1.79%	2017
22nd	Ireland	3,091	1.05%	2017
23	Portugal	2,563	1.32%	2017
24	Greece	2,033	1.13%	2017
25th	Hungary	1,673	1.35%	2017
26th	Romania	945	0.50%	2017
27	Slovenia	801	1.86%	2017
28	Slovakia	749	0.88%	2017
29	Luxembourg	695	1.26%	2017
30th	Iceland	462	2.13%	2017
31	Croatia	420	0.86%	2017
32	Bulgaria	389	0.75%	2017
33	Lithuania	372	0.88%	2017
34	Serbia	342	0.93%	2017
35	Estonia	304	1.29%	2017
36	Latvia	138	0.51%	2017
37	Cyprus	109	0.56%	2017
38	Malta	61	0.55%	2017
39	North Macedonia	36	0.35%	2017
40	Montenegro	13	0.32%	2017
rank	country	in million euros	in% of GDP	year
		R&D expenditure

List of companies by research and development expenditure

The following list sorts companies according to their spending on research and development in 2016 in billion US dollars ( USD ).

rank	Companies	Branch	country	R&D spending in billions of dollars
01	Amazon.com	E-commerce	United States	17.4
02	Volkswagen AG	Automobiles	Germany	15.1
03	Alphabet Inc.	technology	United States	14.5
04th	Intel	technology	United States	12.8
05	Samsung	technology	South Korea	12.8
06th	Microsoft	software	United States	12.7
07th	Hoffmann-La Roche	pharmacy	Switzerland	11.7
08th	Huawei	technology	People's Republic of China	11.2
09	Apple	technology	United States	10.8
10	Merck & Co.	pharmacy	United States	10.3
11	Toyota	Automobiles	Japan	09.6
12	Novartis	pharmacy	Switzerland	09.2
13	Johnson & Johnson	pharmacy	United States	09.1
14th	Daimler AG	Automobiles	Germany	08.8
15th	General Motors	Automobiles	United States	08.1
16	Pfizer	pharmacy	United States	07.8
17th	Robert Bosch GMBH	technology	Germany	07.8
18th	ford	Automobiles	United States	07.3
19th	Facebook Inc.	technology	United States	06.4
20th	Cisco Systems	telecommunications	United States	06.2
rank	Companies	Branch	country	R&D spending in billions of dollars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Slight increase in R&D expenditure in the EU in 2017 to 2.07% of GDP. Eurostat, accessed 5 January 2019 . 
2. ↑ Chart: The Global Leaders in R&D Spending, by Country and Company. Visual Capitalist, accessed December 22, 2017 (American English).