Researchers per million inhabitants
Compare researchers per million inhabitants across 28 ISO-mapped countries or territories using the fixed 2024 UN SDG Global Database slice.
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Key Insights
- •28 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2024 observation in the selected slice.
- •Hong Kong has the highest published value (5873.74436 researchers per million people).
- •Togo has the lowest published value (57.79402 researchers per million people).
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 1,365.3researchers per million people)
About This Statistic
Researchers measured in full-time equivalents per one million inhabitants.
MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and dimension slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicates and other dimensions are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.
Methodology
Researchers measured in full-time equivalents per one million inhabitants.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong | 5,873.7researchers per million people |
| 2 | Macao | 4,634.1researchers per million people |
| 3 | Serbia | 2,687.5researchers per million people |
| 4 | Russian Federation | 2,638.6researchers per million people |
| 5 | Cuba | 2,171.3researchers per million people |
| 6 | Georgia | 1,896.0researchers per million people |
| 7 | Algeria | 1,764.0researchers per million people |
| 8 | Tunisia | 1,667.6researchers per million people |
| 9 | Azerbaijan | 1,662.5researchers per million people |
| 10 | Belarus | 1,567.8researchers per million people |
| 11 | Saudi Arabia | 1,234.7researchers per million people |
| 12 | Egypt | 1,120.2researchers per million people |
| 13 | Armenia | 942.2researchers per million people |
| 14 | Uruguay | 937.6researchers per million people |
| 15 | The Republic of North Macedonia | 888.1researchers per million people |
| 16 | Bahrain | 848.9researchers per million people |
| 17 | Kazakhstan | 758.0researchers per million people |
| 18 | Oman | 739.4researchers per million people |
| 19 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 705.2researchers per million people |
| 20 | Mauritius | 688.5researchers per million people |
| 21 | Moldova, Republic of | 649.9researchers per million people |
| 22 | Uzbekistan | 639.5researchers per million people |
| 23 | Mexico | 438.2researchers per million people |
| 24 | Kenya | 384.0researchers per million people |
| 25 | Panama | 250.5researchers per million people |
| 26 | Bhutan | 236.3researchers per million people |
| 27 | Kuwait | 144.8researchers per million people |
| 28 | Togo | 57.8researchers per million people |
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Data Source
This data comes from United Nations SDG Global Database (2024).
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