R&D personnel by sector of performance, professional position and sex

In 2021, Bulgaria's R&D personnel by sector of performance, professional position and sex decreased by 3.7% compared to 2020, reaching 25,122.

Bulgaria accounts for 0.8% of the EU-27 total of 3,102,980.

Bulgaria ranks 18th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 0.2% (from 25,060 in 2016).

Source: Eurostat dataset rd_p_persocc, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.