Researchers in R&D

The number of researchers engaged in Research &Development (R&D), expressed as per million. Researchers are professionals who conduct research and improve or develop concepts, theories, models techniques instrumentation, software of operational methods. R&D covers basic research, applied research, and experimental development.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
145
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    UNESCO

    Stat Bulk Data Download Service, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources/bulk, publisher: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), date accessed: 2025-03-26, date published: 2025-02

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Algeria20241763.99per million people
Armenia2024942.22per million people
Azerbaijan20241662.53per million people
Bahrain2024848.95per million people
Belarus20241567.81per million people
Bhutan2024236.31per million people
Bosnia and Herzegovina2024705.16per million people
Cuba20242171.26per million people
Egypt20241120.22per million people
Georgia20241896.00per million people

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