Panama - Researchers in Research and Development

Researchers in R&D (per million people)

The value for Researchers in R&D (per million people) in Panama was 39.11 as of 2013. As the graph below shows, over the past 17 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 165.62 in 2007 and a minimum value of 37.66 in 2012.

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/)

See also:

Year Value
1996 111.83
1997 114.51
1998 158.29
1999 96.93
2000 94.38
2001 89.33
2002 94.31
2003 94.73
2004 84.73
2005 103.30
2006 104.96
2007 165.62
2008 131.68
2009 110.08
2011 118.17
2012 37.66
2013 39.11

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Technology