A   2-23  Research and Development Expenditure
and Public Spending on Education as Percentage of GDP
Source: World Bank WDI Database.				(%)
Country or Area	Research and Development Expenditure as of GDP		Public Spending on Education,Total as of GDP
	2000	2007	2000	2007
World	2.15	2.21	4.17	4.53
High Income	2.44	2.45	5.00	5.00
Middle Income	0.65		4.09	4.09
China	0.90	1.49
Hong Kong,China	0.47			3.52
Macao,China			3.68	2.03
Bangladesh			2.38	2.56
Brunei Darussalam			3.71
Cambodia			1.67	1.60
India	0.77	0.80	4.40
Indonesia	0.07			3.53
Iran			4.38	5.49
Israel	4.45	4.74	6.55	6.36
Japan	3.04	3.44	3.67	3.45
Kazakhstan	0.18	0.21	3.26	2.83
Korea,Rep.	2.39	3.47		4.21
Laos			1.50	3.04
Malaysia	0.49		5.97	4.53
Mongolia	0.20	0.23	5.79	5.05
Myanmar	0.11		0.57
Pakistan	0.13	0.67	1.84	2.84
Philippines			3.49	2.58
Singapore	1.88	2.61
Sri Lanka	0.14
Thailand	0.25		5.41	4.00
Egypt	0.19	0.23		3.68
South Africa			5.58	5.34
Canada	1.91	2.03	5.56	4.93
Mexico	0.37		4.86	4.83
United States	2.75	2.67		5.54
Argentina	0.44	0.51	4.60	4.93
Brazil	0.94		4.02	5.21
Venezuela	0.38			3.66
Czech Rep.	1.21	1.59	3.97
France	2.15	2.10	5.67
Germany	2.45	2.56	4.46
Italy	1.05		4.47	4.32
Netherlands	1.82	1.75	4.96
Poland	0.64	0.57	5.01	4.92
Russian Fed.	1.05	1.12	2.94	3.10
Spain	0.91	1.28	4.28	4.36
Turkey	0.48	0.71	2.59
Ukraine	0.96	0.87	4.17	5.28
United Kingdom	1.86	1.84	4.60	5.56
Australia	1.62		5.00	4.65
New Zealand		1.26		6.16