This map shows the distribution of researchers per million inhabitants, latest available year. Researchers are professionals engaged in the conception or creation of new knowledge, products, processes, methods and systems and also in the management of the projects concerned.

Number of researchers in the World: 1,080.8 per million inhabitants

Note: The data are expressed in full-time equivalents (FTE), which are a measure of the actual volume of human resources devoted to R&D. It is important to note when interpreting the data that headcounts (HC) were used for countries where FTE figures were not available.