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Dataset · UIS
Researchers per Million Inhabitants
Researchers per Million Inhabitants, 2024 compilation · 145 countries
Researchers per million inhabitants counts the people employed to create new knowledge — in business, government, universities and non-profits — in full-time equivalents, against every million people. It is SDG indicator 9.5.2, the people-side counterpart to research and development spending.
This site holds one edition, Researchers per Million Inhabitants, 2024 compilation, read from UIS’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Researchers per Million Inhabitants · the file
- Newest
- Researchers per Million Inhabitants, 2024 compilation
- Held
- 1 edition · 145 rows
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
01One edition
Every edition
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Edition | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Researchers per Million Inhabitants, 2024 compilation | 145 | — | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: researchers-per-million-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
024 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 145 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 145 | 0 | |
Researchers per million inhabitants (full-time equivalent)researchers_per_millionHeadline | The headline figure: Researchers per million inhabitants (full-time equivalent). | Number · up to 5 decimals | 1.4 Guatemala18,129.8 Liechtensteinmiddle 701.9 | 145 | 0 | |
Reference yearreference_yearReading year | The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side. | Year | — | 20 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03145 countries across every edition
Who is covered
How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 36 |
| Americas | 23 |
| Asia | 39 |
| Europe | 42 |
| Oceania | 5 |
| All | 145 |
One edition, covering 145 countries.
Not in this dataset · 79 places this site covers
UIS gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
Afghanistan
Andorra
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cameroon
Cayman Islands
Central African RepublicChannel Islands
Comoros
Cook Islands
Curaçao
Djibouti
Dominica
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Fiji
French Polynesia
Gabon
Gibraltar
Grenada
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Isle of Man
Israel
Jamaica
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kyrgyzstan
Lebanon
Liberia
Libya
Maldives
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Micronesia
Montserrat
Nauru
New Caledonia
Niue
North Korea
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Peru
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Sierra Leone
Sint Maarten
Solomon Islands
SomaliaSomaliland
South Sudan
Sudan
Suriname
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Timor-Leste
Tonga
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
United States Virgin Islands
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Yemen04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
2 · Their file
Researchers per Million Inhabitants — UIS (readings to 2024)
3 · Read by this site
September 26, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
1 file, one per edition
It downloads as a CSV: researchers-per-million-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 5 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From the UNESCO Institute for Statistics data API (researchers per million inhabitants, full-time equivalent), latest available reading per country.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 26, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
- Publish anything adapted from it under the same licence
Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.
A credit line
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), Researchers per Million Inhabitants, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Researchers per Million Inhabitants, Researchers per Million Inhabitants, 2024 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/researchers-per-million
The publisher’s own citation: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. UIS Data Browser. Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Researchers per Million Inhabitants by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
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07Questions
Researchers per Million Inhabitants: questions and answers
What is the Researchers per Million Inhabitants?
Researchers per million inhabitants counts the people employed to create new knowledge — in business, government, universities and non-profits — in full-time equivalents, against every million people. It is SDG indicator 9.5.2, the people-side counterpart to research and development spending.
Which editions of the Researchers per Million Inhabitants can I download?
One: Researchers per Million Inhabitants, 2024 compilation, as a CSV file.
Does UIS rank countries on it?
No. UIS publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY-SA 4.0, with credit to UIS. The licence text is linked on this page.