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

In 2021, Slovakia's R&D personnel by sector of performance, professional position and sex decreased by 0.2% compared to 2020, reaching 22,358.

Slovakia accounts for 0.7% of the EU-27 total of 3,102,980.

Slovakia ranks 19th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 25.8% (from 17,768 in 2016).

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