BG · 2019 · tsc00001
Research and development expenditure by sector of performance
Bulgaria, 2019
In 2019, Bulgaria's research and development expenditure by sector of performance increased by 10.5% compared to 2018, reaching 0.84.
Bulgaria accounts for 38.0% of the EU-27 total of 2.21.
Bulgaria ranks 22nd 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 6.3% (from 0.79 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00001, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.