IE · 2017 · tsc00002
Research and development personnel by sector of performance
Ireland, 2017
In 2017, Ireland's research and development personnel by sector of performance decreased by 2.6% compared to 2016, reaching 1.48.
Ireland accounts for 113.8% of the EU-27 total of 1.30.
Ireland ranks 10th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00002, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.