UNESCO SCIENCE REPORT

UNESCO SCIENCE REPORT
Number of publications
Publications per
million
inhabitants
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2008 2014
Central Asia
Kazakhstan 200 210 255 221 269 247 276 330 499 600 14 36
Kyrgyzstan 46 47 51 54 51 57 65 67 95 82 10 15
Mongolia 67 71 99 126 166 173 145 167 209 203 48 70
Tajikistan 32 32 45 49 39 51 53 61 67 46 7 5
Turkmenistan 5 6 8 3 6 9 12 19 13 24 1 5
Uzbekistan 296 289 335 306 350 328 363 284 313 323 11 11
South Asia
Afghanistan 7 10 8 23 19 36 31 39 34 44 1 1
Bangladesh 511 584 669 797 881 995 1 079 1 216 1 302 1 394 5 9
Bhutan 8 23 5 8 16 27 28 23 35 36 12 47
India 24 703 27 785 32 610 37 228 38 967 41 983 45 961 46 106 50 691 53 733 32 42
Maldives 1 2 5 4 5 5 5 8 5 16 13 46
Nepal 158 212 218 253 295 349 336 365 457 455 10 16
Pakistan 1 142 1 553 2 534 3 089 3 614 4 522 5 629 5 522 6 392 6 778 18 37
Sri Lanka 283 279 322 430 432 419 461 475 489 599 21 28
South–East Asia
Brunei Darussalam 29 31 37 43 48 49 46 64 79 106 111 250
Cambodia 54 70 92 86 126 139 136 168 191 206 6 13
China 66 151 79 740 89 068 102 368 118 749 131 028 153 446 170 189 205 268 256 834 76 184
China,Hong Kong SAR 7 220 7 592 7 440 7 660 8 141 8 527 9 258 9 133 9 725 852 1 099 117
China,Macao SAR 63 96 79 121 143 201 226 368 488 46 238 80
Indonesia 554 612 629 709 893 992 1 103 1 222 1 426 1 476 3 6
Japan 76 950 77 083 75 801 76 244 75 606 74 203 75 924 72 769 75 870 73 128 599 576
Korea,DPR 11 10 11 36 29 34 19 37 21 23 1 1
Korea,Rep. of 25 944 28 202 28 750 33 431 36 659 40 156 43 836 45 765 48 663 50 258 698 1 015
Lao PDR 36 55 47 58 60 95 114 133 126 129 9 19
Malaysia 1 559 1 813 2 225 2 852 4 266 5 777 7 607 7 738 8 925 9 998 104 331
Myanmar 41 41 42 39 43 47 56 52 59 70 1 1
Philippines 486 494 578 663 706 730 873 779 894 913 7 9
Singapore 6 111 6 493 6 457 7 075 7 669 8 459 9 032 9 430 10 280 10 553 1 459 1 913
Thailand 2 503 3 089 3 710 4 335 4 812 5 214 5 790 5 755 6 378 6 343 65 94
Timor–Leste 2 8 3 0 3 3 0 4 6 1 0 1
Viet Nam 570 656 750 943 963 1 207 1 387 1 669 2 105 2 298 11 25
Oceania
Australia 24 755 27 049 28 649 30 922 33 284 35 228 38 505 39 899 44 926 46 639 1 429 1 974
New Zealand 4 942 5 119 5 373 5 681 5 854 6 453 6 811 6 917 7 303 7 375 1 328 1 620
Cook Islands 1 1 3 0 0 2 3 4 6 7 0 446
Fiji 61 67 67 65 62 59 74 83 98 106 77 120
Kiribati 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 3 5 0 48
Marshall Islands 1 5 0 1 6 1 1 5 1 5 19 95
Micronesia 4 7 7 3 9 9 3 7 6 12 29 115
Nauru 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 93
Niue 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 214
Palau 7 9 11 4 6 4 7 5 8 12 197 571
Papua New Guinea 44 51 84 78 76 81 100 112 89 110 12 15
Samoa 3 9 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 4 5 21
Solomon Islands 6 7 8 4 6 11 17 8 11 17 8 30
Tonga 0 4 5 4 2 3 6 2 1 6 39 57
Tuvalu 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 264
Vanuatu 12 9 7 9 16 12 21 18 19 19 40 74
Source: data from Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded, compiled for UNESCO by Science–Metrix, May 2015
Sources for background data:
Population: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2013; World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision
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