% of GDP - Source frequency: biennial · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's r&d expenditure (% gdp) was 1.7% as of January 2023. Total gross expenditure on research and development (GERD) as a percentage of GDP. Published for survey years only (every second year); each point is labelled with the first year of the financial year surveyed, so 2023 is 2023-24. Investment in R&D drives innovation and long-term productivity gains. Australia consistently invests below OECD peers. Data is sourced from ABS Research and Experimental Development, All Sector Summary (Cat. 8104.0) from 2015-16; OECD Main Science and Technology Indicators (ABS-sourced) for earlier years. and updated every two years.
Total gross expenditure on research and development (GERD) as a percentage of GDP. Published for survey years only (every second year); each point is labelled with the first year of the financial year surveyed, so 2023 is 2023-24.
Investment in R&D drives innovation and long-term productivity gains. Australia consistently invests below OECD peers.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Research and Experimental Development, All Sector Summary (Cat. 8104.0) from 2015-16; OECD Main Science and Technology Indicators (ABS-sourced) for earlier years.), updated every two years. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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