BG · 2022 · tsc00001
Research and development expenditure by sector of performance
Bulgaria, 2022
In 2022, Bulgaria's research and development expenditure by sector of performance decreased by 2.6% compared to 2021, reaching 0.75.
Bulgaria accounts for 33.8% of the EU-27 total of 2.22.
Bulgaria ranks 24th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.4% (from 0.74 in 2017).
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00001, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.