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Figure 12.2: Trends in researchers from the Black Countries Sea countries, around the 2001–2013 Black Sea
Turkey's researcher density has doubled in a decade
Researchers per million inhabitants, by head count
2500
2 648
2000
1500
1000
500
1 929
1 776
1 662
1 237
1 048
702
Georgia – 1 183
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Researchers in Black Sea countries by field of employment and gender, 2013
By head counts
Turkey 2 217
Belarus* 1 961
Azerbaijan 1 677
Ukraine* 1 451
Armenia* 1 300
Moldova 932
* based on
underestimated data,
as many researchers
have secondary jobs
in R&D
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Total
Total Natural sciences Engineering Medical sciences
Women
(%)
Total
Women
(%)
Total
Women
(%)
Total
Women
(%)
Agricultural
sciences Social sciences Humanities
Total
Women
(%)
Total
Women
(%)
Total
Women
(%)
Armenia* 3 870 48.1 2 194 46.4 546 33.5 384 61.7 45 66.7 217 47.0 484 60.5
Azerbaijan 15 784 53.3 5 174 53.9 2 540 46.5 1 754 58.3 1 049 38.5 2 108 48.9 3 159 63.1
Belarus 18 353 41.1 3 411 50.6 11 195 31.5 876 64.6 1 057 60.1 1 380 59.1 434 60.8
Moldova 3 250 48.0 1 168 45.7 448 29.0 457 52.5 401 45.4 411 68.4 365 52.6
Turkey 166 097 36.2 14 823 35.9 47 878 24.8 31 092 46.3 6 888 31.6 24 421 41.1 12 350 41.9
Ukraine 65 641 45.8 16 512 44.5 27 571 37.2 4 200 65.0 5 289 55.0 4 644 61.4 2 078 67.8
Note: Data for Turkey are for 2011.
*Partial data
Researchers employed by business enterprises
Researchers per million inhabitants by head count
1 200
Belarus 1 183
900
837
600
300
229
680
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, March 2015
Turkey 609
Ukraine 511
Azerbaijan 124
79 100
Moldova 73
0
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Note: This figure
is more useful for
discerning the
evolution over
time than strict
cross-country
comparisons, as the
latter do not all apply
international statistical
methodologies. Data
are unavailable for
Armenia and Georgia.
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