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2018 Global R&D Funding Forecast
Our 2018 forecast is a combination of the industrial, government and academic investments by the R&D spending countries of the world. The investments made by these countries are largely influenced by value and growth of their gross domestic product (GDP). We base our R&D forecasts for each country on economic forecasts and science and technology (S&T) survey data by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency, along with multiple reader surveys performed by the editors of R&D Magazine. Economic data are combined with published relationships of each country’s science and technology efforts to create the R&D forecasts.
2021 Global R&D Funding Forecast
The continuing large annual increases in Chinese R&D investments (non-stop for more than 20 years) and the inability of the U.S. to match those increases results in a forecast of China outspending the U.S. (for the very first time) in R&D ($622 billion for China vs $599 billion for the U.S.) in 2021. This nearly 4% difference can be partially explained by a 2% improvement in China’s annual GDP compared to a 4% decline in U.S. annual GDP for 2020.
2000 to 2010 Global R&D Funding Forecast Bundle
This 268 page PDF R&D Funding Forecast bundle includes the years 2000 through 2010 and also includes additional September featured reports for the years 2005, 2006 and 2007.
2020 Global R&D Funding Forecast
Expanded format for 2020 + special mid-year update on how COVID-19 was disrupting 2020.