BG · 2024 · tsc00001
Research and development expenditure by sector of performance
Bulgaria, 2024
In 2024, Bulgaria's research and development expenditure by sector of performance decreased by 2.5% compared to 2023, reaching 0.77.
Bulgaria accounts for 34.4% of the EU-27 total of 2.24.
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 fallen by 8.3% (from 0.84 in 2019).
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00001, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.