PT · 2023 · tsc00002
Research and development personnel by sector of performance
Portugal, 2023
In 2023, Portugal's research and development personnel by sector of performance increased by 4.8% compared to 2022, reaching 1.54.
Portugal accounts for 98.1% of the EU-27 total of 1.57.
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 30.5% (from 1.18 in 2018).
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00002, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.