Number of research scientists decreased by three times in Ukraine

Since 1991, the number of research scientists has decreased by three times in Ukraine. 135 thousand people, 0.7% of the working population, work in the research institutions of state business and educational sectors of science.

70 thousand people are research scientists (16 thousand associates of sciences, four doctors of sciences and 50 thousand performers of scientific and technical work without scientific degree).

For comparison - in the neighboring countries, cuts of research scientists over the past decade has been much lower than in Ukraine. Currently, staff of scientific organizations in Russia and Belarus amounts to 1.1% 1.3% of the working population.