Sri Lanka - Researchers in Research and Development

Researchers in R&D (per million people)

The value for Researchers in R&D (per million people) in Sri Lanka was 106.40 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 21 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 187.73 in 1996 and a minimum value of 93.06 in 2006.

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/)

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Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Technology