Arab Region | Research and development expenditure, percent of GDP (Arab countries,1996–2020)
Gross domestic expenditures on research and development (R&D), expressed as a percent of GDP. They include both capital and current expenditures in the four main sectors: Business enterprise, Government, Higher education and Private non-profit. R&D covers basic research, applied research, and experimental development.
| Location | Year | value |
|---|---|---|
| Palestine | 2007 | 0.2 |
| Palestine | 2008 | 0.15 |
| Palestine | 2009 | 0.36 |
| Palestine | 2010 | 0.36 |
| Palestine | 2013 | 0.45 |
| Tunisia | 2002 | 0.54 |
| Tunisia | 2003 | 0.65 |
| Tunisia | 2004 | 0.73 |
| Tunisia | 2005 | 0.71 |
| Tunisia | 2006 | 0.68 |
| Tunisia | 2007 | 0.67 |
| Tunisia | 2008 | 0.64 |
| Tunisia | 2009 | 0.71 |
| Tunisia | 2010 | 0.66 |
| Tunisia | 2011 | 0.67 |
| Tunisia | 2012 | 0.65 |
| Tunisia | 2013 | 0.64 |
| Tunisia | 2014 | 0.62 |
| Tunisia | 2015 | 0.59 |
| Tunisia | 2016 | 0.57 |
| Tunisia | 2017 | 0.7 |
| Tunisia | 2018 | 0.72 |
| Tunisia | 2019 | 0.75 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2011 | 0.49 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2014 | 0.69 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2015 | 0.9 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2016 | 0.96 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2018 | 1.28 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2019 | 1.31 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2020 | 1.45 |
| Morocco | 1998 | 0.27 |
| Morocco | 2001 | 0.61 |
| Morocco | 2002 | 0.53 |
| Morocco | 2003 | 0.63 |
| Morocco | 2006 | 0.61 |
| Morocco | 2010 | 0.71 |
| Oman | 2011 | 0.14 |
| Oman | 2012 | 0.21 |
| Oman | 2013 | 0.17 |
| Oman | 2014 | 0.21 |
| Oman | 2015 | 0.25 |
| Oman | 2016 | 0.26 |
| Oman | 2017 | 0.23 |
| Oman | 2018 | 0.22 |
| Oman | 2019 | 0.31 |
| Oman | 2020 | 0.37 |
| Qatar | 2012 | 0.48 |
| Qatar | 2015 | 0.52 |
| Qatar | 2018 | 0.53 |
| Algeria | 2001 | 0.23 |
| Algeria | 2002 | 0.37 |
| Algeria | 2003 | 0.2 |
| Algeria | 2004 | 0.16 |
| Algeria | 2005 | 0.07 |
| Algeria | 2017 | 0.53 |
| Bahrain | 2014 | 0.1 |
| Egypt | 1996 | 0.21 |
| Egypt | 1997 | 0.2 |
| Egypt | 1998 | 0.2 |
| Egypt | 1999 | 0.19 |
| Egypt | 2000 | 0.19 |
| Egypt | 2004 | 0.27 |
| Egypt | 2005 | 0.24 |
| Egypt | 2006 | 0.26 |
| Egypt | 2007 | 0.26 |
| Egypt | 2008 | 0.27 |
| Egypt | 2009 | 0.43 |
| Egypt | 2010 | 0.43 |
| Egypt | 2011 | 0.53 |
| Egypt | 2012 | 0.51 |
| Egypt | 2013 | 0.64 |
| Egypt | 2014 | 0.64 |
| Egypt | 2015 | 0.72 |
| Egypt | 2016 | 0.71 |
| Egypt | 2017 | 0.68 |
| Egypt | 2018 | 0.72 |
| Egypt | 2019 | 0.84 |
| Egypt | 2020 | 0.96 |
| Iraq | 2007 | 0.05 |
| Iraq | 2008 | 0.03 |
| Iraq | 2009 | 0.05 |
| Iraq | 2010 | 0.04 |
| Iraq | 2011 | 0.03 |
| Iraq | 2014 | 0.04 |
| Iraq | 2015 | 0.04 |
| Iraq | 2016 | 0.04 |
| Iraq | 2017 | 0.05 |
| Iraq | 2018 | 0.04 |
| Iraq | 2019 | 0.03 |
| Iraq | 2020 | 0.04 |
| Jordan | 2002 | 0.34 |
| Jordan | 2008 | 0.42 |
| Jordan | 2016 | 0.7 |
| Kuwait | 1997 | 0.21 |
| Kuwait | 1998 | 0.26 |
| Kuwait | 1999 | 0.2 |
| Kuwait | 2000 | 0.13 |
| Kuwait | 2001 | 0.18 |
| Kuwait | 2002 | 0.18 |
| Kuwait | 2003 | 0.14 |
Arab Region | Research and development expenditure, percent of GDP (Arab countries,1996–2020)
Gross domestic expenditures on research and development (R&D), expressed as a percent of GDP. They include both capital and current expenditures in the four main sectors: Business enterprise, Government, Higher education and Private non-profit. R&D covers basic research, applied research, and experimental development.