NL · 2021 · tsc00001
Research and development expenditure by sector of performance
Netherlands, 2021
In 2021, Netherlands's research and development expenditure by sector of performance decreased by 2.2% compared to 2020, reaching 2.22.
Netherlands accounts for 99.1% of the EU-27 total of 2.24.
Netherlands ranks 7th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 4.7% (from 2.12 in 2016).
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00001, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.