Sentence examples for fraction of gdp from inspiring English sources

Since then, however, annual military spending has fallen to only a tiny fraction of GDP.

America's public debt is expected to double as a fraction of GDP by 2018.

There are caveats to measuring public-funded science purely as a fraction of GDP – every economy is different, and it's tempting to oversimplify.

British spending on research and development, as a fraction of GDP, slumped this year to a record low of 1.8%.

The UK is now at the bottom of the G8 league of nations in terms of the fraction of GDP devoted to public R&D – just 0.44%, compared to the G8 average of over 0.7%.

It offers huge potential returns to society yet UK investment in science is set to fall as a fraction of GDP, while other countries like the US and Germany are increasing their investment".

Most rich countries now give a larger fraction of their GDP as aid than they did in 2005.

In fact, once one looks at the longer term trends, it should not be reassuring at all that China is devoting a much smaller fraction of its GDP to defense spending than the US.

However, only two countries (Brazil and Cuba) were close to 2%, and in all countries, health spending represents only a small fraction of the GDP of the country.

This notion is supported by the relatively higher fraction of the GDP-bound form of wt Ras-SNO, compared with that of wt Ras, in NIH 3T3 and PC12 cells.

However, countries spent very different fractions of their GDP on aid, according to the think-tank.