Country list by Research and Development spending

[nForce]

This is the research and development spending of nations by their GDP per capita spending.

Research and development expenditure (% of GDP) | Data | Table

You will notice here certain trends. Israel spends the largest percentage of its GDP at research which is why it is so far ahead in this field. In 2011 it was 4.2% of their GDP. On contrary Indonesia and Saudi Arabia spent onlt 0.08% of their GDP (PPP) on research and development (in 2009) which was one of the lowest in the world. Tajikistan spent 0.09% of their GDP on research in the same year. Pakistan fared relatively better spending .46% of its GDP on indigenous research and development. Iran spent .7% higher than any other Islamic state and is the only Muslim country to have reached 2% even. Might explain why Muslim countries have no internal development power of indigenous weapons.

By amount US was on top spending $405.3 Billion and China came at a second with $220 Billion and Japan with $160.3 Billion.

Don't blame others-blame ourselves!

Thats all that you can think of ??

R&D = Indegenous Weapons ??

In that case you guys still have a lot more way to go.

 

[MehrotraPrince]

It was .09 there in 2009. It fluctuates every year.

It was 0.9% in 2009 and not 0.09%.
In year 2009 India was spending close to $ 27 billion.

Note: R & D is measured in terms of GDP(PPP).

 

[haviZsultan]

But its all blank in the link given by you ( post #1 )

From where you got this .9 figure?

List of countries by research and development spending - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sorry. I memorize some figures. I forgot this one and remembered incorrectly. Sorry.

 

[Roybot]

so it was 0.9% in 2009 and was projected to be about 1.2% by 2012....we must spend close to 2% hope we will achieve that.

Yes slowly we ll get there, it takes time. We need to have good infrastructure in place to attract more global R&D investment.

http://battelle.org/docs/default-document-library/2012_global_forecast.pdf?sfvrsn=2