EDUCATION & SCIENCE
Compare education and science rankings on world maps
Funding, research talent and documented inventions measure different parts of a knowledge system. Compare education spending, researcher density, research and development investment, and resident patent applications.
01 / HOW TO READ
Separate inputs from outputs and adjust for scale
GDP shares describe investment relative to the economy, while per-million measures adjust for population. Patent counts do not capture the quality of every invention, so they are more useful when read beside researchers and research spending.
02 / CHOOSE A RANKING
Education & science ranking maps
Open a theme to compare countries on a ten-level heat map and check the complete ranking, country values, reference years and sources.
Education spending (% of GDP)
This is government education spending as a share of GDP, not spending per student or a direct measure of outcomes.
View the education spending (% of gdp) ranking mapResearchers per million people
This adjusts researcher counts for population size but not for fields, output or working conditions.
View the researchers per million people ranking mapR&D spending (% of GDP)
This is research and development spending as a share of GDP, not its absolute amount or effectiveness.
View the r&d spending (% of gdp) ranking mapPatent applications per million people
This counts resident patent applications per million people and does not measure patent quality.
View the patent applications per million people ranking map03 / KEEP EXPLORING