Researchers per Million People by Country 2022
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Researchers per Million People by Country 2022South Korea leads with 9,435 researchers per million people, narrowly ahead of Denmark on 9,037 and Singapore on 8,782. The most striking feature is the dominance of small, wealthy nations: eight of the top ten are European, and the Nordic bloc alone supplies four entries through Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland. This is a measure of research intensity rather than scale, which is why large research powers like the United States, China and Japan do not appear despite employing far more researchers in absolute terms. Iceland's presence at 6,864 is remarkable for a nation of under 400,000 people. The top ten spans a relatively narrow band, from 9,435 down to 5,819.
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- Data source
- World Bank (UNESCO Institute for Statistics)
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 2022 · 10 observations
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- Researchers in R&D (per million people)
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- 16 September 2026
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- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
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