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Netherlands: R&D personnel and researchers by sector of performance, fields of R&D and sex: Business enterprise sector, Total, Total, Total, Full-time equivalent (FTE)

147,342Full-time equivalent (FTE) · 2024+55.7% 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 (Full-time equivalent (FTE)). Annual figures for Netherlands from 1981 to 2024.

19852024

Every year

YearValue (Full-time equivalent (FTE))Note
2024147,342
2023140,132
2022133,950
2021123,627
2020118,355
2019115,124
2018112,807
2017107,496
2016102,614
201597,443
201494,612
201395,108
201276,767.2
201174,010.5
201054,139
200942,336
200848,019
200749,246
200652,841
200548,588
200450,028
200344,485
200247,034
200148,366
200047,509
199945,181
199843,872
199742,411
199639,501
199537,817
199435,993
199330,890
199229,440
199129,970
199031,950
198933,240
198831,390
198731,210
198630,820
198529,940
198427,430
198327,200
198227,140
198127,144

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Published by Eurostat, produced by Eurostat. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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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, Full-time equivalent (FTE). Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/eurostat-rd-p-perssci-bes-total-t-total-fte (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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