ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:Snip1/List of countries by Nobel laureates per capita

This article includes a list of countries by Nobel laureates per capita. That is, a list of countries ranked by their Nobel Prize winners in relation to their population. Because the population of a country is significantly higher than its Nobel laureates, the figures have been multiplied by 10 million. Thus, the number on the rightmost column can be read as the number of Nobel laureates a country possesses for every 10 million people.

The figures include all Nobel Prizes awarded up to and including 14 October 2013. By total number of awards, the United States has the most.

Note: Non-sovereign entities are marked in italics.

All prizes

All five prizes (Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine) and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences are considered.

Rank	Country	Nobel laureates	Population (2013)	Laureates/ 10 million
—	Faroe Islands	1	49,469	202.147
1	Saint Lucia	2	182,273	109.726
2	Luxembourg	2	530,380	37.709
3	Switzerland	25	8,077,833	30.949
4	Iceland	1	329,535	30.346
5	Sweden	29	9,571,105	30.300
6	Denmark	14	5,619,096	24.915
7	Austria	21	8,495,145	24.720
8	Norway	11	5,042,671	21.814
9	United Kingdom	121	63,136,265	19.165
10	ଛାଞ୍ଚ:Country data East Timor	2	1,132,879	17.654
11	Israel	12	7,733,144	15.518
12	Ireland	6	4,627,173	12.967
13	Germany	104	82,726,626	12.572
14	Netherlands	19	16,759,229	11.337
15	United States	347	320,050,716	10.842
16	France	59	64,291,280	9.177
17	Hungary	9	9,954,941	9.041
18	Belgium	10	11,104,476	9.005
—	European Union	456	509,472,390	8.950
19	Cyprus	1	1,141,166	8.763
20	Trinidad and Tobago	1	1,341,151	7.456
21	Finland	4	5,426,323	7.371
22	New Zealand	3	4,505,761	6.658
23	Canada	22	35,181,704	6.253
24	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	3,829,307	5.223
25	Australia	12	23,342,553	5.141
26	Latvia	1	2,050,317	4.877
27	Slovenia	1	2,071,997	4.826
28	Macedonia	1	2,107,158	4.746
29	Czech Republic	5	10,702,197	4.672
30	Liberia	2	4,294,077	4.658
31	Lithuania	1	3,016,933	3.315
32	Italy	20	60,990,277	3.279
—	ଛାଞ୍ଚ:Country data Tibet	1	3,117,917	3.207
33	Poland	12	38,216,635	3.140
34	Croatia	1	4,289,714	2.331
35	Palestine	1	4,326,295	2.311
36	Costa Rica	1	4,872,166	2.052
37	South Africa	10	52,776,130	1.895
38	Portugal	2	10,608,156	1.885
39	Greece	2	11,127,990	1.797
40	Spain	8	46,926,963	1.705
41	Russia	23	142,833,689	1.610
42	Japan	19	127,143,577	1.494
—	Serbia	1	7,186,862	1.391
—	Hong Kong	1	7,203,836	1.388
43	Bulgaria	1	7,222,943	1.384
44	Romania	3	21,698,585	1.383
45	Guatemala	2	15,468,203	1.293
46	Argentina	5	41,446,246	1.206
—	World	851	7,162,119,434	1.188
47	Chile	2	17,619,708	1.135
48	Belarus	1	9,356,678	1.069
49	Azerbaijan	1	9,413,420	1.062
50	Algeria	2	39,208,194	0.510
51	Egypt	4	82,056,378	0.487
52	Taiwan	1	23,329,772	0.429
53	Yemen	1	24,407,381	0.410
54	Ghana	1	25,904,598	0.386
55	Peru	1	30,375,603	0.329
56	Venezuela	1	30,405,207	0.329
57	Morocco	1	33,008,150	0.303
58	Iran	2	77,447,168	0.258
59	Mexico	3	122,332,399	0.245
60	Kenya	1	44,353,691	0.225
61	Ukraine	1	45,238,805	0.221
62	Colombia	1	48,321,405	0.207
63	ଛାଞ୍ଚ:Country data Korea, South	1	49,262,698	0.203
64	Myanmar	1	53,259,018	0.188
65	Turkey	1	74,932,641	0.133
66	Vietnam	1	91,679,733	0.109
67	India	9	1,252,139,596	0.072
68	Bangladesh	1	156,594,962	0.064
69	China	8	1,385,566,537	0.058
70	Nigeria	1	173,615,345	0.058
71	Pakistan	1	182,142,594	0.055

Scientific prizes

Only the awards for Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences are considered.

Rank	Country	Nobel laureates	Population (2013)	Laureates/ 10 million
—	Faroe Islands	1	49,469	202.147
1	Saint Lucia	1	182,273	54.863
2	Luxembourg	2	530,380	37.709
3	Switzerland	20	8,077,833	24.759
4	Austria	18	8,495,145	21.189
5	Denmark	10	5,619,096	17.796
6	Sweden	16	9,571,105	16.717
7	United Kingdom	96	63,136,265	15.205
8	Norway	6	5,042,671	11.898
9	Netherlands	18	16,759,229	10.740
10	Germany	88	82,726,626	10.637
11	Israel	8	7,733,144	10.345
12	United States	314	320,050,716	9.811
13	Cyprus	1	1,141,166	8.763
14	Hungary	8	9,954,941	8.036
15	New Zealand	3	4,505,761	6.658
—	European Union	330	509,472,390	6.477
16	France	35	64,291,280	5.444
17	Belgium	6	11,104,476	5.403
18	Canada	19	35,181,704	5.401
19	Latvia	1	2,050,317	4.877
20	Slovenia	1	2,071,997	4.826
21	Australia	11	23,342,553	4.712
22	Finland	2	5,426,323	3.686
23	Lithuania	1	3,016,933	3.315
24	Czech Republic	3	10,702,197	2.803
25	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	3,829,307	2.611
26	Croatia	1	4,289,714	2.331
27	Ireland	1	4,627,173	2.161
28	Italy	13	60,990,277	2.131
—	Hong Kong	1	7,203,836	1.388
29	Poland	5	38,216,635	1.308
30	Japan	16	127,143,577	1.258
31	Russia	16	142,833,689	1.120
32	Belarus	1	9,356,678	1.069
33	Azerbaijan	1	9,413,420	1.062
34	Portugal	1	10,608,156	0.943
—	World	640	7,162,119,434	0.894
35	South Africa	4	52,776,130	0.758
36	Argentina	3	41,446,246	0.724
37	Romania	1	21,698,585	0.461
38	Taiwan	1	23,329,772	0.429
39	Spain	2	46,926,963	0.426
40	Venezuela	1	30,405,207	0.329
41	Morocco	1	33,008,150	0.303
42	Algeria	1	39,208,194	0.255
43	Ukraine	1	45,238,805	0.221
44	Egypt	1	82,056,378	0.122
45	Mexico	1	122,332,399	0.082
46	Pakistan	1	182,142,594	0.055
48	India	6	1,252,139,596	0.048
49	China	4	1,385,566,537	0.029

Inclusion criteria

The list of Nobel laureates by country was compiled by BBC News using the following criteria:

• Prizes are allocated to the country/countries stated on the winner's biography on the website of the Nobel Prize committee (www.nobelprize.org).
• Where the website mentions multiple countries in relation to a prize winner (country of birth; country of citizenship; country of residence at time of award) each of those countries is credited as having won the prize.
• Where a prize has multiple winners, the country (or countries) of each winner are credited.
• Prizes which were declined by the winner are included.
• Prizes won by organisations are not allocated to countries.
• Winners from Belarus and Ukraine are not credited to Russia. Winners born in what was then Poland but is now Ukraine are credited to Poland.

Note: The BBC News figures included all Nobel Prizes awarded up to and including 8 October 2010. Nobel prizes announced after that date were added generally following the same criteria outlined above (see Updates section below for details).

Corrections

This is a list of corrections made to the original figures provided by BBC News:

• No award was attributed to Luxembourg, but, according to the Nobel Prize website, Gabriel Lippmann (Physics, 1908) was born in that country.
• No award was attributed to Azerbaijan, but, according to the Nobel Prize website, Lev Landau (Physics, 1962) was born in that country (then part of the Russian Empire). The justification for this correction is that BBC News did credit Latvia for Wilhelm Ostwald's 1909 Chemistry Prize, even though his birthplace, Latvia's capital Riga, was by the time he was born (1853) also part of the Russian Empire.
• Australia was credited with only one Nobel laureate in Physics, but up to and including 8 October 2010 there were two Physics laureates associated with that country: William Lawrence Bragg (1915) and Aleksandr Prokhorov (1964), both of whom were born there according to the Nobel Prize website.

Updates

This section details how Nobel Prizes announced after 8 October 2010 were added.

• 2010 update:
  • Economic Sciences: 2 to the United States and 1 each to Cyprus, Denmark and the United Kingdom.
• 2011 update:
  • Chemistry: 1 to Israel.
  • Literature: 1 to Sweden.
  • Peace: 2 to Liberia and 1 to Yemen.
  • Physics: 3 to the United States and 1 to Australia.
  • Physiology or Medicine: 2 to the United States and 1 each to Canada, France and Luxembourg.
  • Economic Sciences: 2 to the United States.
• 2012 update:
  • Physiology or Medicine: 1 each to the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States.
  • Physics: 1 each to Morocco, France and the United States.
  • Chemistry: 2 to the United States.
  • Literature: 1 to China.
  • Peace: Not applicable.
  • Economic Sciences: 2 to the United States.
• 2013 update:
  • Physiology or Medicine: 3 to the United States and 1 to Germany.
  • Physics: 1 each to Belgium and the United Kingdom.
  • Chemistry: 3 to the United States, 2 to Israel, and 1 each to Austria, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
  • Literature: 1 to Canada.
  • Peace: Not applicable.
  • Economic Sciences: 3 to the United States.

See also

• List of Nobel laureates by country

Further reading

• Emeka Nwabunnia, Bishop Emeka Ebisi (2007), The Nobel prize (1901-2000): handbook of landmark records, University Press of America, ISBN 978-0-7618-3573-8

External links

• All Nobel Laureates
• Graph of Nobel shares by country (yearly cumulative)