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WORLD STATISTICS

Science & Space

Researchers in R&D (per million people)

researchers per million people. Produced by UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
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Indicator code
SP.POP.SCIE.RD.P6
Unit
researchers per million people
Frequency
annual
Default classification
Latest available
Original producer
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Distributed by
World Bank — World Development Indicators
License
CC BY 4.0
Source record
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.SCIE.RD.P6

World trend

2000 – 2020

Highest

Most recent year per country (within 5 years of the latest).

  1. 1Liechtenstein18,1302023
  2. 2Korea, Rep.9,4722023
  3. 3Sweden8,9112023
  4. 4Denmark8,8382023
  5. 5Singapore8,7822022
  6. 6Finland8,3152023
  7. 7Norway7,4512023
  8. 8Austria6,6342023
  9. 9Netherlands6,5632023
  10. 10Switzerland6,1082023

Lowest

Most recent year per country (within 5 years of the latest).

  1. 106Guatemala1.452023
  2. 105Dominican Republic202022
  3. 104Nigeria222019
  4. 103Malawi252019
  5. 102Mali262023
  6. 101Myanmar282023
  7. 100Lesotho322023
  8. 99El Salvador552023
  9. 98Togo582024
  10. 97Bolivia632021

Revision history

Changes to previously published values detected during imports.

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