Technicians in R&D and equivalent staff are people whose main tasks require technical knowledge and experience in engineering, physical and life sciences (technicians), or social sciences and humanities (equivalent staff). They participate in R&D by performing scientific and technical tasks involving the application of concepts and operational methods, normally under the supervision of researchers.
| 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egito | 250,8 | 259,8 | 267,2 | 272,8 | 351,6 | 343,9 | 336,6 | 371,2 | 369,6 | ||
| Tunísia | 46,9 | 50,0 | 51,0 | 61,4 | 58,8 | 63,5 | 63,4 | 61,7 | |||
| Burundi | 17,6 | 6,6 | |||||||||
| República Democrática do Congo | 6,7 | ||||||||||
| Etiópia | 10,2 | 16,4 | 33,1 | 33,3 | |||||||
| Quênia | 627,7 | ||||||||||
| Madagascar | 46,3 | 10,6 | 15,4 | 16,5 | 19,4 | 10,8 | 12,6 | ||||
| Malaui | 60,0 | ||||||||||
| Maurício | 54,4 | 130,3 | |||||||||
| Ruanda | 5,3 | 5,7 | |||||||||
| Seicheles | 597,9 | ||||||||||
| Eswatini | 36,0 | ||||||||||
| Uganda | 13,8 | 10,8 | |||||||||
| Zimbabue | 10,7 |