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

In 2020, Germany's R&D personnel by sector of performance, professional position and sex decreased by 0.2% compared to 2019, reaching 733,831.

Germany accounts for 24.8% of the EU-27 total of 2,961,312.

Germany ranks 1st out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 14.6% (from 640,516 in 2015).

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