NL · 2018 · tsc00001
Research and development expenditure by sector of performance
Netherlands, 2018
In 2018, Netherlands's research and development expenditure by sector of performance decreased by 1.9% compared to 2017, reaching 2.10.
Netherlands accounts for 96.8% of the EU-27 total of 2.17.
Netherlands ranks 8th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 1.9% (from 2.14 in 2013).
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00001, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.