Japan - Technicians in Research and Development

Technicians in R&D (per million people)

The value for Technicians in R&D (per million people) in Japan was 524.29 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 22 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 683.01 in 1998 and a minimum value of 502.55 in 2016.

Definition: The number of technicians participated in Research & Development (R&D), expressed as per million. Technicians and equivalent staff are people who perform scientific and technical tasks involving the application of concepts and operational methods, normally under the supervision of researchers. R&D covers basic research, applied research, and experimental development.

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

See also:

Year Value
1996 662.53
1997 658.34
1998 683.01
1999 663.86
2000 619.11
2001 538.34
2002 524.19
2003 526.24
2004 570.23
2005 558.94
2006 575.24
2007 583.83
2008 587.53
2009 581.89
2010 582.35
2011 559.13
2012 512.59
2013 513.84
2014 536.96
2015 521.95
2016 502.55
2017 520.66
2018 524.29

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Technology