Scientific and technical journal articles in European Union
Researchers in the European Union published 558,077 scientific and technical articles in 2023.
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
558,077
Change from 2022
−1.9%
World, 2023
3,271,296 articles
Scientific and technical journal articles in European Union over time
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Articles, fractional count. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 558,077 articles | 3,271,296 articles |
| 2022 | 568,739 articles | 3,220,952 articles |
| 2021 | 588,274 articles | 3,111,013 articles |
| 2020 | 554,457 articles | 2,868,013 articles |
| 2019 | 543,786 articles | 2,708,531 articles |
| 2018 | 530,444 articles | 2,522,113 articles |
| 2017 | 530,740 articles | 2,425,390 articles |
| 2016 | 528,513 articles | 2,336,757 articles |
| 2015 | 525,923 articles | 2,252,543 articles |
| 2014 | 519,982 articles | 2,195,344 articles |
| 2013 | 510,177 articles | 2,125,848 articles |
| 2012 | 500,131 articles | 2,062,566 articles |
| 2011 | 480,846 articles | 2,003,515 articles |
| 2010 | 461,646 articles | 1,909,442 articles |
| 2009 | 449,914 articles | 1,827,111 articles |
| 2008 | 430,826 articles | 1,725,502 articles |
| 2007 | 410,767 articles | 1,636,696 articles |
| 2006 | 392,756 articles | 1,570,081 articles |
| 2005 | 374,012 articles | 1,484,401 articles |
| 2004 | 338,573 articles | 1,324,894 articles |
| 2003 | 319,973 articles | 1,213,775 articles |
| 2002 | 307,259 articles | 1,154,717 articles |
| 2001 | 299,798 articles | 1,109,574 articles |
| 2000 | 290,458 articles | 1,070,967 articles |
| 1999 | 277,469 articles | 1,020,793 articles |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of −1.9% from 568,739 articles in 2022.
- Since 2013, when it was 510,177 articles, the figure has changed by +9.4%.
- The figure for the world in 2023 was 3,271,296 articles.
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