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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 250.8 | 259.8 | 267.2 | 272.8 | 351.6 | 343.9 | 336.6 | 371.2 | 369.6 | ||
| Tunisia | 46.9 | 50.0 | 51.0 | 61.4 | 58.8 | 63.5 | 63.4 | 61.7 | |||
| Burundi | 17.6 | 6.6 | |||||||||
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 6.7 | ||||||||||
| Ethiopia | 10.2 | 16.4 | 33.1 | 33.3 | |||||||
| Kenya | 627.7 | ||||||||||
| Madagascar | 46.3 | 10.6 | 15.4 | 16.5 | 19.4 | 10.8 | 12.6 | ||||
| Malawi | 60.0 | ||||||||||
| Mauritius | 54.4 | 130.3 | |||||||||
| Rwanda | 5.3 | 5.7 | |||||||||
| Seychelles | 597.9 | ||||||||||
| इस्वातिनी | 36.0 | ||||||||||
| Uganda | 13.8 | 10.8 | |||||||||
| Zimbabwe | 10.7 |