R&D spending at 0.87% of GDP in Poland

Poland spent €3.44 billion on research and development in 2013, according to data quoted by the EU’s statistics office Eurostat. These expenditures stood for 0.87 percent of the country’s GDP. In 2004, which was used for comparison, R&D expenditures in Poland stood at €1.14 billion or 0.56 percent of the GDP. Throughout the EU, R&D spending stood at €273.46 billion or 2.02 percent of total GDP. In 2004 the figures were at €194.34 billion and 1.76 percent.