PT · 2020 · tsc00002
Research and development personnel by sector of performance
Portugal, 2020
In 2020, Portugal's research and development personnel by sector of performance increased by 9.7% compared to 2019, reaching 1.36.
Portugal accounts for 93.8% of the EU-27 total of 1.45.
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 38.8% (from 0.98 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00002, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.