Talk:List of sovereign states by research and development spending

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2011 or 2012 Why for China numbers are from 2012 while for the rest numbers are from 2011?--88.1.244.26 (talk) 20:46, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Source #2 is used as the source for many countries, however it does not seem to be discussing any nation aside from the U.S.. Also, the link for citation 3 is dead. Yaakovaryeh (talk) 21:56, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

I just realized the same what Yaahkovaryeh mentioned about source #2. Btw. Battelle.org new forecast for 2104 : Braniti (talk) 16:00, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Is the spending referred to all government spending, of does it include estimates of R&D spending by private businesses and universities? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.126.7.69 (talk) 15:24, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

The link for the first citation is dead. Please someone try to correct it.81.203.82.16 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 00:10, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

I think this article needs to be updated. OECD data can be referred. A short article is also available here:  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:700:300:4105:45C7:E96:68A:8CBE (talk) 12:06, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Spending per capita
Might be nice to add a column for R&D spending per capita? Although the 'percentage of GDP' column shows the relative value each country places on R&D, it does little to indicate the availability of this funding. This is what I personally hoped to see here, I guess others would have the same idea coming in to this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.71.207.195 (talk) 15:39, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

PPP
What is the logic of having R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP given as units of "% PPP". Wouldn't the R&D expenditure and the GDP be provided in the same currency/basis, and therefore no correction would be required — or even if a 'correction' was employed it would apply to both numerator and denominator and thus have no practical effect? —DIV (137.111.13.4 (talk) 05:51, 13 January 2016 (UTC))

I would vote using real currency units rather than PPP. Research and science is a global activity and equipment, conference fees and plane tickets are in real currency and they do not usually depend on the country of residence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.56.151.70 (talk) 06:25, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Updated numbers are wrong
The percentages do not correspond to values in OECD 2014 data. Percentage of GDP and percentage of GDP PPP should be the same as noted by 137.111.13.4.

In addition, some numbers are wrong even assuming the percentages are right. For example, Singapore had a GDP per capita corrected for purchasing power parity of 83789 in 2014 according to world bank. 3.174% of that is 2659. Using OECD percentage of 2.179, it's approximately 1826. The US had a GDP per capita, PPP of 54540. 2.742% of that is 1495, while the value with the correct percentage from OECD of 2.756% is 1503. The table has none of those values, it's wrong and I do not even know how it got so wrong.

Essentially, none of the values make sense, and I suggest rolling back to pre-2016-update values until someone calculates the proper values. Isparavanje (talk) 03:04, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

New source to prevent discrepancies and incoherent numbers and years
Hello,

I don't really understand the current list: the sources are different, the years are not the same... I am not sure the current table makes much sense.

Here is UNESCO Institute for Statistics article that is authoritative, comprehensive and recent: http://uis.unesco.org/apps/visualisations/research-and-development-spending/

Could a wikibot scrap the data of the Unesco source to automatically update the table? I'm afraid I won't have the time to do it manually myself, but please let me know if someone would be interested to do it.

Kind regards, --Huiva (talk) 12:39, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Huge Factual Accuracy Problems
The reference link in almost all entries is data from the OECD, which contains the data for ONLY OECD countries. However, as may be apparent, that link has also been freely used to reference data for other countries. 16AdityaG09 (talk) 12:05, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Data do not correspond to source
In addition to the aforementioned issue of the OECD source being used for countries not actually tallied by the OECD, the numbers themselves are incorrect; the latest OECD data are only available for 2021 and the actual figures differ. For instance, the US ought to be 3.5% of GDP at about $710bn instead of 2.6% at $660bn. NoceboResponse (talk) 18:39, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Links are not leading to countries but to flags
Hi, I just saw that since the edit from Florin Talasman on 15 January 2024 every single link in this article to a country is instead leading to the flag of the country. I don't know if this is intended but I don't have the patience and knowledge to change it either way. Lini1804 (talk) 23:09, 4 May 2024 (UTC)