SE · 2020 · tsc00004
Total researchers by sector of performance - full time equivalent
Sweden, 2020
In 2020, Sweden's total researchers by sector of performance increased by 1.9% compared to 2019, reaching 80,089.
Sweden accounts for 4.2% of the EU-27 total of 1,887,380.
Sweden ranks 7th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 20.0% (from 66,734 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00004, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.