| Development of environment-related technologies | Percentage of all technologies | Environment-related technologies | | 10.38 | 11.81 | 12.76 | 13.32 | 11.85 | 10.6 | 9.73 | 9.49 | 8.62 |
| Relative advantage | | 1.25 | 1.27 | 1.23 | 1.22 | 1.09 | 1.02 | 1.01 | 1.03 | 1.07 |
| Percentage of inventions worldwide | | 1.22 | 1.17 | 1.12 | 0.96 | 0.85 | 0.78 | 0.77 | 0.79 | 0.81 |
| Inventions per capita | | 14.59 | 14.45 | 15.01 | 14.35 | 13.16 | 11.74 | 11.1 | 10.55 | 9.5 |
| Inventions per unit of government R&D | | 1.52 | 1.16 | 0.73 | 0.78 | 0.81 | 0.72 | 0.46 | 0.46 | 0.56 |
| Percentage of environment-related technologies. By domain | General environmental management | | 29.77 | 23.73 | 33.08 | 31.07 | 32.45 | 27.95 | 28.22 | 26.26 | 29.36 |
| Water-related adaptation technologies | | 9.42 | 8.72 | 6.15 | 4.79 | 4.69 | 7.07 | 7.06 | 5.85 | 6.63 |
| Climate change mitigation | Climate change mitigation technologies in the production or processing of goods | | 13.44 | 16.61 | 13.6 | 14.98 | 17.83 | 11.91 | 15.78 | 14.34 | 18.9 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to energy generation, transmission or distribution | | 25.72 | 30.34 | 28.9 | 28.15 | 24.14 | 24.99 | 24.53 | 29.43 | 24.94 |
| Capture, storage, sequestration or disposal of greenhouse gases | | 3.25 | 2.49 | 3.35 | 3.52 | 1.39 | 1.69 | 2.62 | 0.97 | 1.97 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to transportation | | 4.58 | 6.26 | 5.93 | 6.57 | 5.61 | 6.59 | 5.34 | 6.73 | 6.81 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to buildings | | 7.6 | 5.99 | 3.94 | 5.08 | 8.81 | 15.59 | 9.9 | 11.97 | 5.47 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to wastewater treatment or waste management | | 6.23 | 5.85 | 5.04 | 5.84 | 5.08 | 4.21 | 6.56 | 4.45 | 5.92 |
| Diffusion of environment-related technologies | Percentage of all technologies | Environment-related technologies | | 9.04 | 9.91 | 10.9 | 12.2 | 11.12 | 10.49 | 9.08 | 8.36 | 7.44 |
| Percentage of inventions worldwide | | 3.47 | 3.43 | 3.49 | 3.67 | 3.12 | 2.87 | 2.54 | 2.26 | 2.14 |
| Percentage of environment-related technologies. By domain | General environmental management | | 32.64 | 31.43 | 30.11 | 29.52 | 29.57 | 28.5 | 30.95 | 31.5 | 29.51 |
| Water-related adaptation technologies | | 4.97 | 5.96 | 4.48 | 4.25 | 3.92 | 4.15 | 4.03 | 5.02 | 3.85 |
| Climate change mitigation | Climate change mitigation technologies in the production or processing of goods | | 17.11 | 17.37 | 15.84 | 17.72 | 17.18 | 15.54 | 16.92 | 17.02 | 17.86 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to energy generation, transmission or distribution | | 25.68 | 25.72 | 28.7 | 28.36 | 27.81 | 29.11 | 26.61 | 25.24 | 27.96 |
| Capture, storage, sequestration or disposal of greenhouse gases | | 2.54 | 2.91 | 3.82 | 3.36 | 2.99 | 3.05 | 2.75 | 2.13 | 2.04 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to transportation | | 6.34 | 6.74 | 6.49 | 6.13 | 7.46 | 7.89 | 6.5 | 7.19 | 5.8 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to buildings | | 5.11 | 4.95 | 5.61 | 5.65 | 5.77 | 6.56 | 6.17 | 6.86 | 6.25 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to wastewater treatment or waste management | | 5.61 | 4.92 | 4.93 | 5 | 5.29 | 5.2 | 6.06 | 5.04 | 6.73 |
| International collaboration in development of environment-related technologies | Percentage of collaborations in all technologies | Environment-related technologies | | 5.47 | 5.62 | 6.15 | 7.85 | 9.25 | 8.13 | 6.4 | 5.8 | 4.66 |
| Development of renewable energy technologies | Inventions per unit of public RD&D | | 2.75 | 3.65 | 1.79 | 1.93 | 0.67 | 0.62 | 0.43 | 1.25 | 1.65 |