| Development of environment-related technologies | Percentage of all technologies | Environment-related technologies | | 9.64 | 10.08 | 11.63 | 12.61 | 13.49 | 12.67 | 10.9 | 9.62 | 9.09 |
| Relative advantage | | 1.18 | 1.14 | 1.18 | 1.13 | 1.15 | 1.07 | 0.96 | 0.93 | 0.95 |
| Percentage of inventions worldwide | | 1.02 | 0.96 | 0.97 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.74 | 0.66 | 0.65 | 0.61 |
| Inventions per capita | | 10.67 | 10.75 | 11.4 | 11.66 | 11.45 | 11.01 | 9.64 | 8.74 | 6.97 |
| Inventions per unit of government R&D | | 1.29 | 1.12 | 0.92 | 0.57 | 0.62 | 0.67 | 0.59 | 0.36 | 0.3 |
| Percentage of environment-related technologies. By domain | General environmental management | | 33.08 | 30.25 | 21.74 | 33.79 | 31.23 | 30.57 | 27.4 | 28.58 | 23.9 |
| Water-related adaptation technologies | | 12.91 | 7.11 | 9.6 | 5.07 | 4.72 | 5.61 | 7.75 | 6.63 | 7.12 |
| Climate change mitigation | Climate change mitigation technologies in the production or processing of goods | | 17.2 | 12.54 | 15.86 | 13.58 | 16.28 | 18.36 | 10.91 | 16.66 | 15.44 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to energy generation, transmission or distribution | | 18.48 | 28.7 | 30.97 | 28.23 | 26.67 | 25.07 | 25.63 | 24.71 | 26.88 |
| Capture, storage, sequestration or disposal of greenhouse gases | | 3.21 | 3.97 | 2.13 | 3.14 | 3.51 | 1.15 | 1.18 | 2.26 | 0.45 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to transportation | | 5.44 | 4.97 | 6.71 | 6.91 | 7.06 | 2.89 | 7.31 | 4.69 | 7.65 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to buildings | | 5.52 | 9.11 | 8.14 | 4.37 | 6.63 | 10.75 | 15.26 | 9.55 | 13.45 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to wastewater treatment or waste management | | 4.16 | 3.36 | 4.84 | 4.92 | 3.89 | 5.61 | 4.56 | 6.9 | 5.12 |
| Diffusion of environment-related technologies | Percentage of all technologies | Environment-related technologies | | 7.84 | 9.27 | 10.25 | 11.15 | 12.35 | 11.41 | 10.84 | 9.47 | 8.51 |
| Percentage of inventions worldwide | | 3.63 | 3.76 | 3.76 | 3.78 | 3.91 | 3.35 | 3.09 | 2.78 | 2.47 |
| Percentage of environment-related technologies. By domain | General environmental management | | 37.31 | 32.3 | 30.86 | 29.82 | 29.42 | 29.31 | 27.95 | 29.92 | 30.72 |
| Water-related adaptation technologies | | 5.93 | 4.88 | 5.83 | 4.43 | 4.28 | 3.87 | 4.07 | 3.97 | 4.93 |
| Climate change mitigation | Climate change mitigation technologies in the production or processing of goods | | 17.21 | 16.71 | 16.9 | 15.38 | 16.94 | 16.52 | 14.87 | 15.9 | 16.34 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to energy generation, transmission or distribution | | 18.07 | 25.27 | 25.28 | 28.5 | 28.08 | 27.19 | 28.7 | 25.89 | 24.55 |
| Capture, storage, sequestration or disposal of greenhouse gases | | 1.72 | 2.48 | 2.82 | 3.68 | 3.32 | 2.89 | 3.01 | 2.72 | 2.13 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to transportation | | 6.41 | 6.12 | 6.6 | 6.39 | 6.01 | 7.3 | 7.51 | 6.24 | 6.92 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to buildings | | 6.6 | 6.79 | 7.03 | 7.1 | 7.11 | 7.71 | 8.79 | 9.41 | 9.35 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to wastewater treatment or waste management | | 6.75 | 5.45 | 4.69 | 4.7 | 4.83 | 5.21 | 5.1 | 5.95 | 5.05 |
| International collaboration in development of environment-related technologies | Percentage of collaborations in all technologies | Environment-related technologies | | 4.68 | 5.97 | 5.73 | 6.4 | 8.59 | 7.46 | 8.35 | 7.17 | 6.39 |
| Development of renewable energy technologies | Inventions per unit of public RD&D | | 1.5 | 2.34 | 2.9 | 1.39 | 1.08 | 0.58 | 0.38 | 0.16 | 0.82 |