Albania has about 4,000 scientists, or people who work on the conception and creation of new knowledge, products, processes, methods and systems. The data is made public for the first time by the Institute of Statistics (INSTAT).
What is striking is that unlike years ago, when men dominated scientific research, science has now been taken over by women.
Specifically, 3,748 people are engaged in R&D activity in Albania on a full-time and part-time basis, 54.4% of whom are women. The highest number of personnel engaged in R&D belongs to the higher education institutions sector, with 81.6%, followed by private enterprises and NGOs with 9.6% and the state sector with 8.8%.
Scientific researchers account for the majority of the engaged personnel with about 55.2%, professional personnel with 21.6%, technical personnel with 10.6% and support personnel with 12.6%.
Based on the classification by educational level for the HEI sector, personnel with a "PhD" educational level account for the largest share at 51.2% and compared to 2021, it has increased by 5.2%.