LV · 2018 · tsc00002
Research and development personnel by sector of performance
Latvia, 2018
In 2018, Latvia's research and development personnel by sector of performance increased by 8.8% compared to 2017, reaching 0.62.
Latvia accounts for 45.3% of the EU-27 total of 1.37.
Latvia ranks 25th 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 12.7% (from 0.55 in 2013).
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00002, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.