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

In 2019, Latvia's R&D personnel by sector of performance, professional position and sex increased by 2.0% compared to 2018, reaching 5,924.

Latvia accounts for 0.2% of the EU-27 total of 2,922,303.

Latvia ranks 24th 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 3.2% (from 5,739 in 2014).

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