Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 17 January 2019
123. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the Eurostat data as a percentage of each member state’s GDP; and the monetary amount each Government expended on research spending on an annual basis over the 2018 period. [2293/19]
View answerThe information is as follows:
Year: 2017
|
GEO |
GBARD €m |
GBARD as percentage GDP |
|
European Union (current composition) |
96,470.7 |
0.63 |
|
Euro area (19 countries) |
74,538.8 |
0.67 |
|
Belgium |
2,870.2 |
0.66 |
|
Bulgaria |
109.6 |
0.21 |
|
Czechia |
1,240.7 |
0.65 |
|
Denmark |
2,613.4 |
0.90 |
|
Germany |
29,006.1 |
0.89 |
|
Estonia |
143.2 |
0.61 |
|
Ireland |
739.3 |
0.25 |
|
Greece |
850.2 |
0.48 |
|
Spain |
5,917.8 |
0.51 |
|
France |
14,747.9 |
0.64 |
|
Croatia |
355.0 |
0.72 |
|
Italy |
8,577.9 |
0.50 |
|
Cyprus |
61.1 |
0.31 |
|
Latvia |
60.0 |
0.22 |
|
Lithuania |
132.2 |
0.31 |
|
Luxembourg |
352.9 |
0.64 |
|
Hungary |
317.8 |
0.26 |
|
Malta |
21.3 |
0.19 |
|
Netherlands |
5,107.4 |
0.69 |
|
Austria |
2,854.3 |
0.77 |
|
Poland |
1,687.9 |
0.36 |
|
Portugal |
712.6 |
0.37 |
|
Romania |
352.4 |
0.19 |
|
Slovenia |
172.3 |
0.40 |
|
Slovakia |
297.1 |
0.35 |
|
Finland |
1,885.9 |
0.84 |
|
Sweden |
3,806.7 |
0.80 |
|
United Kingdom |
11,448.5 |
0.49 |
|
Iceland |
132.5 |
0.61 |
|
Norway |
3,562.1 |
1.01 |
|
Serbia |
147.5 |
0.40 |
The table shows Government Budget Allocations on R&D (GBARD) and as a percentage of GDP for EU countries for 2017. Data for 2018 is not yet available from Eurostat. For more information please see the R&D Budget 2017-2018 report at the following link:
https://dbei.gov.ie/en/Publications/The-R-D-Budget-2017-2018.html.
