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Bulgaria: R&D personnel and researchers by sector of performance, fields of R&D and sex: Business enterprise sector, Total, Total, Total, Head count

17,231Head count · 2024+169.9% since 2014

Eurostat table rd_p_perssci. R&D personnel and researchers by sector of performance, fields of R&D and sex: Business enterprise sector (Head count). Annual figures for Bulgaria from 1980 to 2024.

19852024

Every year

YearValue (Head count)Note
202417,231
202316,135
202218,408
202116,057
202016,589
201916,529
201815,949
201713,114
201613,565
201511,356
20146,384
20134,541
20123,533
20112,970
20103,316
20094,007
20083,397
20073,090
20062,960
20052,305
20042,544
20032,398
20021,866
20011,972
20002,273
19992,806
19983,751
19973,909
19964,155
19954,423
19945,055
199311,196
199216,370
199134,473
199060,005
198962,800
198858,966
198754,954
198651,646
198560,987
198459,662
198357,083
198256,138
198154,390
198048,337

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Eurostat (2026). R&D personnel and researchers by sector of performance, fields of R&D and sex: Business enterprise sector, Total, Total, Total, Head count. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/eurostat-rd-p-perssci-bes-total-t-total-hc (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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