PT · 2015 · rd_p_persocc
R&D personnel by sector of performance, professional position and sex
Portugal, 2015
In 2015, Portugal's R&D personnel by sector of performance, professional position and sex increased by 2.4% compared to 2014, reaching 47,999.
Portugal accounts for 1.9% of the EU-27 total of 2,477,699.
Portugal ranks 14th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 0.8% (from 47,616 in 2010).
Source: Eurostat dataset rd_p_persocc, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.