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Share of the global gross spend on R&D Middle East 2020-2022
In 2021, the Middle Eastern region accounted for 2.2 percent of all global expenditure on research and development (R&D). The total global expenditure on research and development amounted to around 2.35 trillion U.S. dollars that year.