| Country | Institution | Your Position | Gender | How many students study marine related subjects in your country? | Estimate (number) | How many marine/coastal research institutions exist in your country? | Estimate (number) | How many researchers are employed in the marine/coastal research institutions in your country? | Estimate (number) | Is marine scientific research in your country linked to policy needs? | Other comments |
| Argentina | Servicio de HidrografÃa Naval | Technical Secretary | Male | I don’t know | I don’t know | Estimate | 12 | Estimate | 350+ | Significantly | |
| Benin | Institut de Recherches Halieutiques et Océanologiques du Bénin (IRHOB) | Director | Estimate: | 70 (some in Hydrobiology) | Estimate: | Only One (IRHOB) | Estimate: | 10 | Partially | ||
| Chile | CHILEAN NAVY HYDROGRAPHIC AND OCEANOGRAPHIC SERVICE | DIRECTOR | Male | I don’t know | I don’t know | Estimate: | 31 | I don’t know | Significantly | ||
| Colombia | Colombian Ocean Commission | International Adviser | Female | I don’t know | I don’t know | Estimate: | 3 | I don’t know | Significantly | Our Pacific, Seaflowe, and Antarctic expeditions have an important link to policy needs | |
| Comoros | Université des Comores | Lecturer | Male | Estimate: | 20 | Estimate: | 3 | I don’t know | Partially | ||
| Democratic People’s Republic of Korea | State Hydro-Meteorological Administration | Director | Male | Estimate | More than 1000 people | Estimate | More than 10 institutions | Estimate | More than 1000 researchers | Significantly | |
| Egypt | National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries | President of National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries | Male | Estimate | 600 | Estimate: | 1 | Estimate | 700 | Significantly | |
| El Salvador | Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales | Especialista en Oceanografía | Male | Estimate: | 25 | Estimate: | 2 | Estimate: | 5 | Partially | |
| Estonia | Ministry of the Environment of Estonia | Coordinator | Male | I don’t know | I don’t know | Estimate: | 3 | Estimate: | 100 | Partially | |
| Finland | Finnish Meteorological Institute | Safety, Head of Group | Female | I don’t know | I don’t know | Estimate: | 2 | Estimate: | appr. 120 | Partially | |
| France | Comité national français pour la COI | Présidente | Female | I don’t know | I don’t know | Estimate: | about 10 main institutions in marine science and technology | Estimate: | approximately 7000 jobs | Partially | |
| Germany | Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency | Secretariat of German IOC-Section | Male | I don’t know | I don’t know | Estimate: | 16 | Estimate: | approx. 4.000 | Significantly | |
| Guinea | Centre de Recherche Scientifique de Conakry Rogbanè (CERESCOR) | Chercheur Océanographe / Directeur Ecole Doctorale en Océanographie, Environnement Marin et Côtier | Male | Estimate: | 150 | Estimate: | 3 | Estimate: | 200 | Significantly | scientific and research |
| India | INCOIS | Director | Male | Estimate: | 10000 per annum including inter disciplinary courses that have marine science into curriculum | Estimate: | 40 (MoES, CSIR, ICAR, University centres, etc.) | Estimate: | 4000 | Significantly | |
| Iran (Islamic Republic of) | Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science | Director | Male | Estimate: | 18000 | Estimate: | More than 15 | I don’t know | Significantly | ||
| Kenya | Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute | Director-Focal Point 3 | Male | Estimate: | 60 | Estimate: | 1 | Estimate: | 70 | Significantly | |
| Kuwait | Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research | Principal Research Scientist, Kuwait Representative to IOC | Female | Estimate: | 60-100 | Estimate: | 2 | Estimate: | 30-50 | Partially | |
| Lebanon | National Centre for Marine Sciences-CNRSL | Director of the Centre & Researcher | Male | Estimate: | around 130 | Estimate: | 1 | Estimate: | 4 | Significantly | |
| Mexico | MEXICO NODC | Coordinator | Male | Estimate | Above 500 | Estimate | Above 20 | I don’t know | Significantly | ||
| Morocco | INRH | National Focal Point | Male | ||||||||
| Nigeria | Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research | Director | Male | Estimate: | Over 500 | Estimate: | 10 | Estimate: | Over 500 | Partially | |
| Pakistan | National Institute of Oceanography | Senior Research Scientist | Female | Estimate | 200 per year | Estimate | Less than 10 | Estimate | Less than 10 | Significantly | |
| Panama | Autoridad Marítima de Panamá | Jefe de Ambiente | Male | I don’t know | I don’t know | Estimate: | 1-2 | I don’t know | Not at all | ||
| Peru | Dirección de HidrografÃa y Navegación – Perú | Director | Male | Estimate: | 0.1 | Estimate: | 20 | I don’t know | Significantly | ||
| Portugal | Instituto Hidrografico | Oceanographer | Female | Estimate: | 50 | Estimate: | 7 | I don’t know | Not at all | ||
| Sudan | UNESCO Chair on Marine Biology and Oceanography / Sudan | Chairholder | Male | ||||||||
| Sweden | SMHI | Senior oceanographer/data manager | Female | I don’t know | I don’t know | Estimate: | 5 | I don’t know | Partially | ||
| Togo | University of Lome | Lecturer, IOC National Focal Point | Male | Estimate: | 20 | Estimate: | 1 | Estimate: | 6 | Partially | |
| Tunisia | Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer (INSTM) | Professor | Male | Estimate | 180 | Estimate: | 5 | Estimate | 250-300 | Partially | |
| United Republic of Tanzania | Institute of Marine Sciences, UDSM | PO box 668, Zanzibar, Tanzania | Male | Estimate: | 120 | Estimate: | 4 | Estimate: | 50 | Partially | |
| Vietnam | Institute of Oceanography, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology | Director | Female | I don’t know | Estimate: | 10 | I don’t know | Partially | |||
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| Ecuador | Instituto Oceanográfico y Antártico de la Armada | Investigador Oceanográfico | Female | I don’t know | Estimate: | alrededor de 10 | Estimate: | 300 | Significantly |
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