Thinkforce Researchers per thousand employed, full-time equivalent, 2004 or latest available year Researchers are professionals engaged in the conception and creation of new knowledge, products, processes, methods and systems, spanning civil, military and business interests. Latest figures show nearly four million R&D professionals in the OECD area, of which about two-thirds are in the business sector. That makes about seven researchers per thousand employees in the OECD area, compared with 5.8 per thousand in 1992 for instance. The number of researchers has increased over the last two decades. Finland, Japan, New Zealand and Sweden have the highest number of research workers per thousand persons employed. Outside the OECD, China has also seen growth, but at 1.2/1000 in 2004, remains relatively low. Women in parliament OECD countries, 2006 Women political leaders are a rarity in OECD countries, but did you know that men still vastly outnumber women in all the world’s
