Euro area: Technicians in R&D (per million people)

Key figures

Since 1996 it is up 83.23% from 917.26 in 1996 (2.93% a year on average, compounded). The World Bank has no value for 11 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What this measures

The number of technicians participated in Research & Development (R&D), expressed as per million. Technicians and equivalent staff are people who perform scientific and technical tasks involving the application of concepts and operational methods, normally under the supervision of researchers. R&D covers basic research, applied research, and experimental development.

Limitations: Estimates of the resources allocated to R&D are affected by national characteristics such as the periodicity and coverage of national R&D surveys across institutional sectors and industries; and the use of different sampling and estimation methods. R&D typically involves a few large performers, hence R&D surveys use various techniques to maintain up-to-date registers of known performers, while attempting to identify new or occasional performers.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 11 values

Technicians in R&D (per million people) in nearby economies

• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 369.56 (2018)
• Iraq — 22.98 (2018)
• Kuwait — 45.2 (2018)
• Malta — 885.98 (2017)

More infrastructure data for Euro area

• Fixed telephone subscriptions — 142.04 million (2022)
• Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 41.34 (2022)
• Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwide — 4.46 million (2023)
• Air transport, freight (million ton-km) — 33,359 (2023)
• Air transport, passengers carried — 611.22 million (2023)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions — 424.06 million (2022)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — 123.51 (2022)
• ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) — 20.21% (2025)
• ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) — US$613.53 billion (2025)

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Questions people ask

What is Euro area's technicians in R&D (per million people)?

1,681 in 2017, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1996?

It is up 83.23% from 917.26 in 1996 (2.93% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 1,681 in 2017 and the lowest 917.26 in 1996.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS), UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: http://uis.unesco.org, note: Data as of March 2021, publisher: UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS).

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SP.POP.TECH.RD.P6, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS), UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: http://uis.unesco.org, note: Data as of March 2021, publisher: UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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