Shares of world R&D expenditure (GERD) by region

	region / year	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
wdt_ID	region / year	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
1	global average	1,67	1,68	1,69	1,69	1,72
2	Arabic average	0,54	0,55	0,59	0,60	0,61
3	Central and Eastern Europe	0,94	0,97	1,01	0,97	1,00
4	Middle Asia	0,18	0,18	0,18	0,17	0,15
5	East Asia and the Pacific	2,03	2,06	2,06	2,08	2,12
6	Latin America and the Caribbean	0,68	0,71	0,73	0,68	0,67
7	North America and Western Europe	2,39	2,41	2,41	2,44	2,46
8	South and West Asia	0,64	0,60	0,57	0,57	0,56
9	Sub-Saharan Africa	0,36	0,36	0,37	0,38	0,38