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

In 2009, Latvia's R&D personnel by sector of performance, professional position and sex decreased by 16.0% compared to 2008, reaching 5,485.

Latvia accounts for 0.3% of the EU-27 total of 2,140,966.

Latvia ranks 22nd out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 7.5% (from 5,103 in 2004).

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