China - Researchers in Research and Development

Researchers in R&D (per million people)

The value for Researchers in R&D (per million people) in China was 1,307.12 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 22 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,307.12 in 2018 and a minimum value of 381.69 in 1998.

Definition: The number of researchers engaged in Research &Development (R&D), expressed as per million. Researchers are professionals who conduct research and improve or develop concepts, theories, models techniques instrumentation, software of operational methods. R&D covers basic research, applied research, and experimental development.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

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Year Value
1996 437.83
1997 466.48
1998 381.69
1999 414.43
2000 538.58
2001 571.71
2002 619.97
2003 655.44
2004 700.07
2005 840.64
2006 914.34
2007 1,057.49
2008 1,176.46
2009 846.56
2010 884.59
2011 957.57
2012 1,014.31
2013 1,066.21
2014 1,089.20
2015 1,150.82
2016 1,196.69
2017 1,224.78
2018 1,307.12

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Technology