This game compares how many researchers a country has for every million inhabitants.

• UNESCO counts researchers as professionals engaged in creating new knowledge, usually measured in full-time equivalent terms.
• The figure is scaled to population, so it is about research capacity density, not total headcount.
• Different countries report through surveys and statistical systems with uneven coverage across sectors and years.
• In each round, pick the country with the higher researchers-per-million figure.

A thin research base can look like a talent story when it is often a funding, institution, and state-capacity story.