Hong Kong SAR, China - Researchers in Research and Development

Researchers in R&D (per million people)

The value for Researchers in R&D (per million people) in Hong Kong SAR, China was 4,027 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4,027 in 2018 and a minimum value of 1,063 in 1998.

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
1998 1,063
1999 1,215
2000 1,170
2001 1,373
2002 1,587
2003 2,007
2004 2,164
2005 2,663
2006 2,694
2007 2,859
2008 2,681
2009 2,785
2010 3,115
2011 3,085
2012 3,191
2013 3,378
2014 3,591
2015 3,565
2016 3,741
2017 3,782
2018 4,027

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Technology