MT · 2018 · tsc00002
Research and development personnel by sector of performance
Malta, 2018
In 2018, Malta's research and development personnel by sector of performance decreased by 7.4% compared to 2017, reaching 0.63.
Malta accounts for 46.0% of the EU-27 total of 1.37.
Malta 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 fallen by 11.3% (from 0.71 in 2013).
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00002, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.