Bulgaria - Researchers in Research and Development

Researchers in R&D (per million people)

The value for Researchers in R&D (per million people) in Bulgaria was 2,343 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 22 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2,343 in 2018 and a minimum value of 1,162 in 2001.

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 1,779
1997 1,459
1998 1,471
1999 1,312
2000 1,185
2001 1,162
2002 1,172
2003 1,229
2004 1,269
2005 1,308
2006 1,354
2007 1,479
2008 1,513
2009 1,601
2010 1,479
2011 1,613
2012 1,541
2013 1,684
2014 1,822
2015 1,977
2016 2,237
2017 2,125
2018 2,343

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Technology