Find Out How Much Your Country Spends on Research & Development

Spending money on research and development is a funny thing. It's hard to tell what's going to be a success, and sometimes the results aren't valuable for decades. For example, Uber is investing heavily in driverless cars with the explicit goal of revolutionizing transportation. Even if the results aren't always successful we're convinced R&D investments are a leading indicator of long term economic strength. We found the numbers for our visualization thanks to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, which collected the data through a series of smaller regional surveys.