NL · 2023 · tsc00004
Total researchers by sector of performance - full time equivalent
Netherlands, 2023
In 2023, Netherlands's total researchers by sector of performance increased by 5.2% compared to 2022, reaching 118,268.
Netherlands accounts for 5.5% of the EU-27 total of 2,155,632.
Netherlands ranks 6th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 23.9% (from 95,475 in 2018).
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00004, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.