Luxembourg remains EU’s biggest investor in R&D per capita in 2022
17 May 2024
Public R&D funding in 2022
Following the yearly trend, Luxembourg registered the highest R&D allocations which corresponds to roughly €661.6 per person.
According to Eurostat, in 2022, Luxembourg had the highest R&D allocations in the EU with €661.6 per person in 2022, this marks a slight decrease of €17.4 per person from the high of €689 reached in 2021.
Luxembourg’s high R&D allocations in health and industrial production and technology
Luxembourg’s high score is made up of several other R&D allocation metrics, of which two stand out.
For the metric pertaining to allocations for R&D in Health, Luxembourg had Europe’s highest score of €127.1 per person.
For the metric pertaining to allocations for R&D in industrial production and technology, Luxembourg was in the top four, reaching €63.8 per person. While Belgium lead with €126.6, this followed with Finland (€77.5) and Germany /€76.1). All scored more than double the EU average which is €27.2.
Announced in 2022, learn more below about how Luxembourg is increasing research funding by nearly 300 million euros to a total of 1.7 billion euros for the 2022 – 2025 period, up 17.6% on the previous years.
Sources of the infographics: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Government_budget_allocations_for_R%26D_(GBARD)#Evolution_of_GBARD_in_the_EU_during_the_2012_-_2022_decade
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