Health research expenditure in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2004 to 2018, by group
In the United Kingdom (UK), the share of health research expenditure towards etiology research amounted to 30.6 percent in 2018, drop from 34.7 percent in the period 2004/05. The share of research spending on underpinning in the UK has also dropped since 2004/05, going from 33.6 percent to 21.7 percent in 2018. While research on treatment development has increased from an 8.6 percent share of expenditure to approximately twelve percent in 2018.