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Friday, June 10, 2005

Indian vs Rest : Research and PhDs

*R&D researchers per million: Less than 200, compared to about 400 in Brazil, 500 in Iran, over 600 in China, over 800 in Argentina, 7,300 in Finland, 5,000 in Japan and 4,500 in USA

*Number of PhDs per million: About 4, compared to 5 in China, 89 in USA, 75 in Japan and 52 in South Korea

*Articles in journals: About 300, compared to over 500 by China, 2 lakh by USA, over 50,000 by Japan and 40,000 by Germany

*Percentage of GDP spent on R&D:

About 0.8, compared to about 1 by Iran, 1.3 by China, nearly 3.5 by Finland, 3.1 by Japan and more than 2.5 by USA and Germany

*Per capita spend on R&D (in $):

About 550, compared to 978 by Japan, 705 by USA, 460 by UK and 15 by China

posted by gaurav at 12:14 AM

4 Comments:

  • Interesting Stats !!!

    By Blogger Sujoo, At Monday, June 20, 2005 at 5:24:00 AM PDT  

  • Less than 200 researchers per million in India eh? The question to ask is - how many more millions (of people) are there in other countries? Do the math, and that makes a lot of researchers in India - the advantage of having a huge population, India has loads of EVERYTHING! And that my friend, is called Economy of scale :) So if India was to go to war (researcher v/s researcher), mere outnumbering would win India the war...think about it

    By Blogger Ketaki, At Monday, June 20, 2005 at 1:50:00 PM PDT  

  • That is true we have the numbers with us, but just compare to china that is almost same as us, they have 3 times the figure.

    Population wise

    USA: 295,734,134
    India: 1,080,264,388

    so if you just compare the absolute number we should have ~1400 researchers per million

    By Blogger gaurav, At Tuesday, June 21, 2005 at 10:31:00 PM PDT  

  • The Chinese in China, or Chinese American citizens that these statisticians use very skillfully ;)?

    By Blogger Ketaki, At Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 6:28:00 AM PDT  

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