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Spain: 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)

139,437Full-time equivalent (FTE) · 2024+59.1% 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 Spain from 1980 to 2024.

19852024

Every year

YearValue (Full-time equivalent (FTE))Note
2024139,437
2023134,793
2022125,529
2021116,465
2020104,727.8
2019106,435.3
2018104,474.1
201795,667.3
201690,129.2
201587,431.5
201487,642
201388,635.1
201289,364.3
201189,841.1
201092,221.3
200993,698.8
200895,207.4
200787,542.6
200682,869.8
200575,344.7
200471,123.1
200365,032.1
200256,337.1
200146,464.5
200047,055.4
199938,323
199834,667
199730,023
199629,431
199527,558
199427,321
199327,781
199228,590
199129,151
199028,508
198925,865
198823,678
198720,361
198619,007
198516,859
198415,022
198312,904
198212,914
198112,006
198012,303

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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 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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