IE · 2021 · tsc00003
Total researchers by sector of performance - head count
Ireland, 2021
In 2021, Ireland's total researchers by sector of performance stood at 36,541.
Ireland accounts for 1.2% of the EU-27 total of 2,988,411.
Ireland ranks 15th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00003, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.