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1981 - 2022 | Yearly | USD mn | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
United States US: GDP: Value Added: Current PPP data was reported at 16,340.388 USD bn in 2022. This records an increase from the previous number of 14,962.179 USD bn for 2021. United States US: GDP: Value Added: Current PPP data is updated yearly, averaging 6,968.773 USD bn from Dec 1981 (Median) to 2022, with 42 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 16,340.388 USD bn in 2022 and a record low of 2,097.284 USD bn in 1981. United States US: GDP: Value Added: Current PPP data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.OECD.MSTI: Gross Domestic Product, GDP PPP and GDP Deflator: OECD Member: Annual.
For the UnitedStates, in the business sector, the funds from the rest of the world previously included in the business-financed BERD, are available separately from 2008.
From 2006 onwards, GOVERD includes state government intramural performance (most of which being financed by the federal government and state government own funds). From 2016 onwards, PNPERD data are based on a new R&D performer survey. In the higher education sector all fields of SSH are included from 2003 onwards.
Following a survey of federally-funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) in 2005, it was concluded that FFRDC R&D belongs in the government sector - rather than the sector of the FFRDC administrator, as had been reported in the past. R&D expenditures by FFRDCs were reclassified from the other three R&D performing sectors to the Government sector; previously published data were revised accordingly.
Between 2003 and 2004, the method used to classify data by industry has been revised. This particularly affects the ISIC category 'wholesale trade' and consequently the BERD for total services. U.S. R&D data are generally comparable, but there are some areas of underestimation:i) Up to 2008, Government sector R&D performance covers only federal government activities.
That by State and local government establishments is excluded;
ii) Except for the Government and the Business Enterprise sectors, the R&D data exclude most capital expenditures.
For the Business Enterprise sector, depreciation is reported in place of gross capital expenditures up to 2014. Higher education (and national total) data were revised back to 1998 due to an improved methodology that corrects for double-counting of R&D funds passed between institutions.Breakdown by type of R&D (basic research, applied research, etc.) was also revised back to 1998 in the business enterprise and higher education sectors due to improved estimation procedures.The methodology for estimating researchers was changed as of 1985.
In the Government, Higher Education and PNP sectors the data since then refer to employed doctoral scientists and engineers who report their primary work activity as research, development or the management of R&D, plus, for the Higher Education sector, the number of full-time equivalent graduate students with research assistantships averaging an estimated 50 % of their time engaged in R&D activities.
As of 1985 researchers in the Government sector exclude military personnel. As of 1987, Higher education R&D personnel also include those who report their primary work activity as design.Due to lack of official data for the different employment sectors, the total researchers figure is an OECD estimate up to 2019. Comprehensive reporting of R&D personnel statistics by the United States has resumed with records available since 2020, reflecting the addition of official figures for the number of researchers and total R&D personnel for the higher education sector and the Private non-profit sector; as well as the number of researchers for the government sector.
The new data revise downwards previous OECD estimates as the OECD extrapolation methods drawing on historical US data, required to produce a consistent OECD aggregate, appear to have previously overestimated the growth in the number of researchers in the higher education sector.Pre-production development is excluded from Defence GBARD (in accordance with the Frascati Manual) as of 2000.
2009 GBARD data also includes the one time incremental R&D funding legislated in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Beginning with the 2000 GBARD data, budgets for capital expenditure - 'R&D plant' in national terminology - are included. GBARD data for earlier years relate to budgets for current costs only.
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