The bar chart below describes the gross domestic spending on research and development in five countries between 2001 and 2011.

The bar chart below describes the gross domestic spending on research and development in five countries between 2001 and 2011.
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the gross domestic expenditure on research and development by China, France, Spain, the
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, and the USA during the years 2001, 2005 and 2011. Overview:-
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, it can be seen that there was a general upward trend in the spending of all of 5 countries, albeit to varying degrees. The USA spent the most on R&D in all three years, with the annual expenditure slightly increasing from 25% in 2011 to 28% of the country's GDP in 2011. On the other end of the spectrum, Spain spent the least, starting at just below 1% in 2001 and finishing at around 13%. China's spending grew more than that of other countries, about 0.5% each year, and increased from about 0.9% in 2001 to around 28% in 2011. The remaining two countries, France and the UK
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showed a similar pattern and their spending held relatively steady throughout the decade, at around 2% and 1.5% of GDP, respectively.
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