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R&D Spending per Person in Large EU Economies

Gross domestic expenditure on research and development, yearly, € per inhabitant

Germany: 1,642 in 2024the highest in data back to 2004+975 since 2004

5 of 5 series are above their level a year earlier·5 of 5 are at a five-year high

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Eurostat (rd_e_gerdtot), all sectors, current euros, not adjusted for inflation. Eurostat marks some years as estimates.

R&D spending per resident in Germany, France, Italy and Spain and the EU since 1995, in current euros. Germany spends the most per person of the four, well above the EU average.

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Germany · R&D Spending per Person · € per inhabitant. Source: Eurostat, GERD by sector of performance (rd_e_gerdtot), sectperf TOTAL, unit EUR_HAB, geo DE: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/rd_e_gerdtot/default/table. Palanor reads it every day. Eurostat's copyright notice: "Reuse of statistical data, metadata, publications, and other dissemination tools published on this website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is authorised provided the source is acknowledged." Palanor reads only EU countries here. Source: Eurostat.

France · R&D Spending per Person · € per inhabitant. Source: Eurostat, GERD by sector of performance (rd_e_gerdtot), sectperf TOTAL, unit EUR_HAB, geo FR: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/rd_e_gerdtot/default/table. Palanor reads it every day. Eurostat's copyright notice: "Reuse of statistical data, metadata, publications, and other dissemination tools published on this website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is authorised provided the source is acknowledged." Palanor reads only EU countries here. Source: Eurostat.

Italy · R&D Spending per Person · € per inhabitant. Source: Eurostat, GERD by sector of performance (rd_e_gerdtot), sectperf TOTAL, unit EUR_HAB, geo IT: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/rd_e_gerdtot/default/table. Palanor reads it every day. Eurostat's copyright notice: "Reuse of statistical data, metadata, publications, and other dissemination tools published on this website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is authorised provided the source is acknowledged." Palanor reads only EU countries here. Source: Eurostat.

Spain · R&D Spending per Person · € per inhabitant. Source: Eurostat, GERD by sector of performance (rd_e_gerdtot), sectperf TOTAL, unit EUR_HAB, geo ES: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/rd_e_gerdtot/default/table. Palanor reads it every day. Eurostat's copyright notice: "Reuse of statistical data, metadata, publications, and other dissemination tools published on this website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is authorised provided the source is acknowledged." Palanor reads only EU countries here. Source: Eurostat.

European Union (27) · R&D Spending per Person · € per inhabitant. Source: Eurostat, GERD by sector of performance (rd_e_gerdtot), sectperf TOTAL, unit EUR_HAB, geo EU27_2020: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/rd_e_gerdtot/default/table. Palanor reads it every day. Eurostat's copyright notice: "Reuse of statistical data, metadata, publications, and other dissemination tools published on this website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is authorised provided the source is acknowledged." Palanor reads only EU countries here. Source: Eurostat.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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