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6. International Comparisons
Pages 34-35

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... engineers per 10,000 population as the United States and on the order of lo percept moreinabsolutenumbers {Table 13J. From 1965 to 1980, the number of scientists and engineers employed in RED increased 30 percent in the United States, 82 percent in West Germany, 131 percent in Japan, and 140 percent in the U.S.S.R.
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... S ~Engineering Degrees {thousandsJ per 10,000 Populations Year usAa Japanb'C USA Japan 1971 50.0 55.9 2.44 5.30 1975 46.9 65.4 2.19 5.86 1980 68.9 73.5 3.1 6.22 NOTE: Initial tabulations provided by National Center for Education Statistics.
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