IE · 2017 · tsc00003
Total researchers by sector of performance - head count
Ireland, 2017
In 2017, Ireland's total researchers by sector of performance stood at 34,721.
Ireland accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 2,589,975.
Ireland ranks 16th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00003, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.