MT · 2019 · tsc00001
Research and development expenditure by sector of performance
Malta, 2019
In 2019, Malta's research and development expenditure by sector of performance increased by 0.0% compared to 2018, reaching 0.55.
Malta accounts for 24.9% of the EU-27 total of 2.21.
Malta ranks 26th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 19.1% (from 0.68 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00001, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.