RO · 2020 · tsc00001
Research and development expenditure by sector of performance
Romania, 2020
In 2020, Romania's research and development expenditure by sector of performance decreased by 2.1% compared to 2019, reaching 0.47.
Romania accounts for 20.6% of the EU-27 total of 2.28.
Romania ranks 27th 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 4.1% (from 0.49 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00001, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.