PT · 2019 · tsc00004
Total researchers by sector of performance - full time equivalent
Portugal, 2019
In 2019, Portugal's total researchers by sector of performance increased by 5.3% compared to 2018, reaching 50,167.
Portugal accounts for 2.7% of the EU-27 total of 1,853,797.
Portugal ranks 10th 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 31.5% (from 38,155 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tsc00004, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.