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R&D researchers. By sex

R&D researchers. Total 2024
Value % over total
Catalonia 38,843 100.0
Spain 184,382 100.0
European Union-27 2,209,371 (e) Estimated value 100.0 (e) Estimated value
Units: In full-time equivalent.
Source Catalonia: Idescat. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
(e) Estimated value.
R&D researchers. Men 2024
Value % over total
Catalonia 23,266 59.9
Spain .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
European Union-27 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Units: In full-time equivalent.
Source Catalonia: Idescat. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
R&D researchers. Women 2024
Value % over total
Catalonia 15,577 40.1
Spain .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
European Union-27 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Units: In full-time equivalent.
Source Catalonia: Idescat. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: March 25, 2026.

RD

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Statistics on R&D Activities (RD).

Methodological note

Research and experimental development (R&D) comprise creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications.

The main breakdown of R&D statistics is by four institutional sectors of performance. These four sectors of performance are the business enterprise sector (BES), the government sector (GOV), the higher education sector (HES) and the private non-profit sector (PNP).

Basic data on R&D personnel are expressed as head count (HC) and full time equivalents (FTE). Total national R&D personnel is obtained by summing up the R&D personnel employed in the four different sectors of performance.

See also