R&D personnel by sector of performance, professional position and sex

In 1999, Slovakia's R&D personnel by sector of performance, professional position and sex decreased by 9.8% compared to 1998, reaching 14,849.

Slovakia accounts for 0.9% of the EU-27 total of 1,661,718.

Slovakia ranks 17th out of 23 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 13.9% (from 17,256 in 1994).

Source: Eurostat dataset rd_p_persocc, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.