Singapore - Researchers in Research and Development

Researchers in R&D (per million people)

The value for Researchers in R&D (per million people) in Singapore was 6,803 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 21 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 7,007 in 2015 and a minimum value of 2,503 in 1996.

Definition: The number of researchers engaged in Research &Development (R&D), expressed as per million. Researchers are professionals who conduct research and improve or develop concepts, theories, models techniques instrumentation, software of operational methods. R&D covers basic research, applied research, and experimental development.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

See also:

Year Value
1996 2,503
1997 2,586
1998 2,952
1999 3,186
2000 4,128
2001 4,106
2002 4,415
2003 4,849
2004 5,113
2005 5,577
2006 5,686
2007 5,963
2008 5,829
2009 6,146
2010 6,242
2011 6,405
2012 6,357
2013 6,603
2014 6,632
2015 7,007
2016 6,935
2017 6,803

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Technology