Researchers per million people in European Union
The European Union had 4,741 researchers per million people in 2023. The value for 2023 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1996.
European Union is a group: European Union, 27 member states (composition from February 2020). The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
European Union, 2023
4,741
Change from 2022
+117per million people
World, 2020
1,652 per million people
Researchers per million people in European Union over time
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The chart shows a calculation from the published values. The table below keeps the published values.
Researchers per million people. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4,741 per million people | – |
| 2022 | 4,624 per million people | – |
| 2021 | 4,404 per million people | – |
| 2020 | 4,225 per million people | 1,652 per million people |
| 2019 | 4,156 per million people | – |
| 2018 | 4,011 per million people | 1,524 per million people |
| 2017 | 3,847 per million people | – |
| 2016 | 3,645 per million people | – |
| 2015 | 3,545 per million people | 1,381 per million people |
| 2014 | 3,404 per million people | – |
| 2013 | 3,344 per million people | – |
| 2012 | 3,246 per million people | – |
| 2011 | 3,124 per million people | – |
| 2010 | 3,088 per million people | 1,267 per million people |
| 2009 | 2,986 per million people | – |
| 2008 | 2,932 per million people | – |
| 2007 | 2,771 per million people | – |
| 2006 | 2,690 per million people | – |
| 2005 | 2,601 per million people | 1,195 per million people |
| 2004 | 2,527 per million people | – |
| 2003 | 2,338 per million people | – |
| 2002 | 2,264 per million people | – |
| 2001 | 2,234 per million people | – |
| 2000 | 2,117 per million people | 1,081 per million people |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +117 from 4,624 per million people in 2022.
- Since 2013, when it was 3,344 per million people, the figure has changed by +1,398.
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