IE · 2015 · tsc00004
Total researchers by sector of performance - full time equivalent
Ireland, 2015
In 2015, Ireland's total researchers by sector of performance decreased by 9.4% compared to 2014, reaching 22,227.
Ireland accounts for 1.4% of the EU-27 total of 1,565,287.
Ireland ranks 16th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00004, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.