2016
Education – TSRQ3 2019
Education - TSRQ3 2019 examines STEM education trends domestically and globally from primary school to postgraduate school spanning from 2000 to 2017.
2016 – U.S. National Security Space Budgets
The United States spent $44.44 billion on space activities in FY 2016, which ran from October 1, 2015, through September 30, 2016. Nearly half of this spending, 49.5%, went toward…
2016 – EUMETSAT Space Budget
The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) had a total budget of €418.1million (US$466.3 million) for 2015, the most recent year for which data is available. The…
2016 – Other Space Employment
Exhibit 3u provides a snapshot of the workforce sizes in space agencies around the world. Direct comparisons among agencies should be avoided or undertaken with care, as differences in size…
2016 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Employment
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) workforce remained constant from 2015 to 2016, shedding just eight employees. Of the 1,529 space professionals working at JAXA in 2016, nearly 70% were…
2016 – Japanese Space Industry Employment
The Japanese space workforce grew by 5.1% from 2014 to 2015, adding 423 workers. This continued a trend of growth that began after a low point for the industry in…
2016 – European Space Agency Employment
At 26.5%, the percentage of female employees is slightly higher in the European Space Agency (ESA) than the European space workforce as a whole, but the proportion of young professionals…
2016 – U.S. National Security Workforce
The U.S. national security space workforce is composed of federal employees working across all branches of the Department of Defense as well as the intelligence agencies. Together, there are more...…
2016 – Government Space Budgets Overview *
Total global government space budgets in 2016 were $76.425 billion, a 0.3% decrease from $76.688 billion in 2015. More than half of this spending was in the United States, which…
2016 – Additional Country Space Budgets *
There are more than 50 space agencies worldwide, with nations on every inhabited continent involved in space activities. The exhibit below shows the most recent available annual budget for civil…