NL · 2019 · tsc00003
Total researchers by sector of performance - head count
Netherlands, 2019
In 2019, Netherlands's total researchers by sector of performance increased by 4.5% compared to 2018, reaching 136,034.
Netherlands accounts for 4.9% of the EU-27 total of 2,801,187.
Netherlands ranks 5th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 15.7% (from 117,573 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00003, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.