Asia Power Index
2024 Edition
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R&D spending (% of GDP)
Gross domestic expenditure on R&D as a share of GDP (latest year available)
This chart shows the distribution of countries based on their weighted score for r&d spending (% of gdp).
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R&D spending (% of GDP)
Gross domestic expenditure on R&D as a share of GDP (latest year available)
Rankings
Indicators
rank
score
trend
Country / Territory
Year
2018
2019
2020
2021
2023
2024
Weighting × 1
Source
Year
1
100.0
—
South Korea
4.9%
2021
2
73.6
Taiwan
3.6%
2020
3
71.0
North Korea
3.5%
*
2017
4
70.1
United States
3.5%
2021
5
66.9
Japan
3.3%
2021
6
49.3
—
China
2.4%
2021
7
43.9
Singapore
2.2%
2020
8
37.1
—
Australia
1.8%
2019
9
29.5
New Zealand
1.5%
2021
10
24.5
Thailand
1.2%
2021
11
+1
19.3
Malaysia
0.9%
2020
12
−1
19.0
Russia
0.9%
2022
13
13.1
—
India
0.7%
2020
14
8.6
Vietnam
0.4%
2021
15
7.7
—
Bangladesh
0.4%
*
2016
16
6.5
—
Philippines
0.3%
2018
17
6.1
—
Nepal
0.3%
2010
18
5.7
—
Indonesia
0.3%
2020
19
5.6
—
Brunei
0.3%
2018
20
3.3
—
Pakistan
0.2%
2021
21
+3
2.4
Cambodia
0.1%
2015
22
+1
2.4
—
Sri Lanka
0.1%
2020
23
−1
1.7
—
Mongolia
0.1%
2022
24
−3
0.8
Myanmar
0.0%
2022
25
0.8
Laos
0.0%
2002
26
0.6
Papua New Guinea
0.0%
2016
27
0.0
—
Timor-Leste
0.0%
2020
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R&D spending (% of GDP)
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