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The charts below show the levels of participation in education and science in developing and industrialised countries in 1980 and 1990.

The three bar charts compare information about the quantity of years of education, the number of scientists per 1000 people and the outlay on science between developing and industrialized countries in 1980 and 1990.

From an overall perspective, the developed countries invested in science significantly more than the developing countries.

First of all, the figure for average schooling years and the number of scientists of both in 1990 were considerably more compared with that in 1980. In 1980, the amount of time that students had to study at school in the industrialized countries was four fold as much as that in the developing nations with just over 8 and 2 years. Similarly, the number of average schooling years in the developed nations in 1990 increased marginally to more than 10 years, whereas, the figure for the developing countries was just under 4 years. Consequently, there was a noticeable growth of 0.3% to approximately 0.7% in the percentage of scientists in the developed countries while the pattern in the developing nations climbed slightly to just under 0.2%.

As far as the expenditure on science is concerned, the figure for the industrialized countries rose significantly from about $ 150 billion to $ 350 billion. In contrast, 1980 – 1990 witnessed a slight downturn to its lowest point at approximately $ 20 billion in the budget for research and improvement in the developing countries.