PT · 2019 · tsc00001
Research and development expenditure by sector of performance
Portugal, 2019
In 2019, Portugal's research and development expenditure by sector of performance increased by 3.0% compared to 2018, reaching 1.39.
Portugal accounts for 62.9% of the EU-27 total of 2.21.
Portugal ranks 14th 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 7.8% (from 1.29 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00001, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.