Researchers per Million Inhabitants

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: researchers-per-million-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Researchers per Million Inhabitants: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

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	1.4Guatemala18,129.8Liechtensteinmiddle 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.

One edition, covering 145 countries.

Not in this dataset · 80 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.

AfghanistanAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBangladeshBarbadosBelizeBeninBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCameroonCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChannel IslandsComorosCook IslandsCuraçaoDjiboutiDominicaEquatorial GuineaEritreaFijiFrench PolynesiaGabonGibraltarGrenadaGuineaGuinea-BissauGuyanaHaitiIsle of ManIsraelJamaicaKiribatiKosovoKyrgyzstanLebanonLiberiaLibyaMaldivesMarshall IslandsMauritaniaMicronesiaMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPeruSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSierra LeoneSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanSudanSurinameTaiwanTajikistanTimor-LesteTongaTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican CityYemen

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

   databrowser.uis.unesco.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Researchers per Million Inhabitants — UIS (readings to 2024)

   indicators

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 26, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: researchers-per-million-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/researchers-per-million

From the UNESCO Institute for Statistics data API (researchers per million inhabitants, full-time equivalent), latest available reading per country.