Number of data scientists employed in companies worldwide 2020 and 2021

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Petroc Taylor,
Jul 22, 2022
Across industries, organizations are increasing their hiring efforts to build larger data science arsenals: from 2020 to 2021, the percentage of surveyed organizations that employed 50 data scientists or more increased from 30 percent to almost 60 percent. On average, the number of data scientists employed in a organization grew from 28 to 50.

Number of data scientists employed in companies worldwide in 2020 and 2021

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Release date

December 2020

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

November 2020

Number of respondents

403 respondents

Special properties

individuals with a level of insight into the machine learning efforts of their companies across a random sampling of industries and machine learning maturity levels

Supplementary notes

Categories do not add up to 100% because they have been rounded to the nearest percentage point.

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