[bergheim]

By that logic, you should add the population for the other countries and compare to the US, which is about 345m compared to the US, 315m - which doesn't sound like the US is "subsidizing the world" to me.. Although I guess a big chunk of that revenue probably comes from the US.

[forrestthewoods]

No you shouldn't. Your 345m is heavily weighted by Japan's 127m population which accounts for 2.3% of the research spend from the chart in question.

If you want to play that game then Japan is incredibly subsidized by the US and Europe, but that's not the question at hand. :)