Business investments in science grew to 33.4% of total costs; domestic expenditure on research and development in Russia in 2025 amounted to 2.145 trillion ₽, or 1% of GDP, according to the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge at the Higher School of Economics of the National Research University. In 2024 the figure was 0.96% of GDP, in 2023 - 0.97%. In terms of spending on science, taking into account purchasing power parity, Russia ranks 9th in the world - $72.4 billion. The country has been in the top ten for 15 years. China ($1.04 trillion) and the United States ($1 trillion) lead, Japan ($233.8 billion) is in third place. The main source of funding remains the state. In 2025, it accounted for 63.4% of costs, or ₽1.4 trillion. Business provided 33.4% - 717.2 billion ₽, another 3.2% came from other sources. At the same time, the share of the business sector in financing research by large and medium-sized enterprises grew from 25.5% in 2010 to 31.9% in 2025. From the federal budget, 792.1 billion rubles were allocated to civil science - 2.51% of total expenditures. 319.7 billion rubles were allocated to fundamental research, and 472.4 billion rubles to applied research. 716.6 thousand people were employed in research and development, which is 2.4% more than a year earlier. More than half of them, 362.3 thousand, were researchers. Almost 94% of researchers worked in large and medium-sized organizations.

Business investments in science grew to 33.4% of total costs; domestic expenditure on research and development in Russia in 2025 amounted to 2.145 trillion ₽, or 1% of GDP, according to the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge at the Higher School of Economics of the National Research University. In 2024 the figure was 0.96% of GDP, in 2023 - 0.97%. In terms of spending on science, taking into account purchasing power parity, Russia ranks 9th in the world - $72.4 billion. The country has been in the top ten for 15 years. China ($1.04 trillion) and the United States ($1 trillion) lead, Japan ($233.8 billion) is in third place. The main source of funding remains the state. In 2025, it accounted for 63.4% of costs, or ₽1.4 trillion. Business provided 33.4% - 717.2 billion ₽, another 3.2% came from other sources. At the same time, the share of the business sector in financing research by large and medium-sized enterprises grew from 25.5% in 2010 to 31.9% in 2025. From the federal budget, 792.1 billion rubles were allocated to civil science - 2.51% of total expenditures. 319.7 billion rubles were allocated to fundamental research, and 472.4 billion rubles to applied research. 716.6 thousand people were employed in research and development, which is 2.4% more than a year earlier. More than half of them, 362.3 thousand, were researchers. Almost 94% of researchers worked in large and medium-sized organizations.