UNESCO SCIENCE REPORT

UNESCO SCIENCE REPORT
Figure 1.7: World shares of GDP, GERD, researchers and publications for the G20, 2009 and 2013 (%)
34.0
36.4
5.7
6.4
2.3
2.6
1.7
2.0
2.5
2.6
22.2
22.5
19.1
21.4
16.9
19.1
28.1 -1
30.5
Russian
Federation
25.3
27.4
20.2
19.1
16.7
19.6
16.1
13.4
7.2
7.7
5.7
6.0
6.9
7.3
16.7
18.1
16.7
17.9
13.8
4.6
4.6
3.4
3.6
3.3
3.7
4.3
4.5
11.1
2.5
3.0
9.6
10.4
2.6
2.8
2.1
2.2
1.5
1.9
1.5
1.6
8.5
9.5
5.8
7.0
European Union
Germany
UK
Canada
4.7
5.1
4.0
3.4
4.1
3.5
4.4
3.6
4.5
4.6
5.1
5.7
1.8
1.8
1.9
1.9
1.4
1.5
1.4
1.7
1.9
2.2
3.4
3.4
3.5 3.1
1.2
1.1
2.4
2.6
1.1
0.8
0.7
0.6
Japan
Korea, Rep.
China
Turkey
Italy
France
USA
6.7
6.0
0.9
0.2
1.5
1.4
0.9
0.8
0.6
0.5
0.5
1.8
1.9
0.1
4.2
3.6
2.8 +1
3.0
Saudi Arabia
Mexico
2.4
2.2
India
0.1
0.1
0.3
0.1
0.1
Indonesia
2.9
2.8
2.2 -1
2.1
3.0
3.1
1.9
Brazil
3.7
3.1
1.3 -1
1.3 -2
1.5 -1
0.7
0.6
1.0
1.0
0.3
0.3
0.3 -1
0.4
0.7
0.7
South Africa
Australia
Note: For publications, the sum of
individual G20 members’ shares
exceeds the share of the G20 as a
group, as publications with co-authors
from more than one G20 member
are included under each individual
country concerned but are counted
only once in the G20 total.
0.6
0.6
0.7
0.6
0.3 -1
0.3
0.9
0.9
Argentina
World share of GERD, 2009 World share of researchers, 2009 World share of publications, 2009
World share of GDP, 2009
World share of GERD, 2013 World share of researchers, 2013 World share of publications, 2014
World share of GDP, 2013
Source: for GERD (PPP$) and
researchers: estimations by UNESCO
Institute for Statistics, July 2015; for
GDP (PPP$): World Bank’s World
Development Indicators, April 2015;
for publications: Thomson Reuters’
Web of Science; data treatment by
Science–Metrix
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