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 should be read as the number of Nobel laureates of a country for every 10 million of its population.

The figures include all Nobel Prizes awarded up to and including 13 October 2016.

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^[1]	Population (2015)^[2]	Laureates/ 10 million
—	Faroe Islands	1	48,199	207.473
1	Saint Lucia	2	184,999	108.109
2	Luxembourg	2	567,110	35.267
3	Sweden	30	9,779,426	30.677
4	Iceland	1	329,425	30.356
5	Switzerland	25	8,298,663	30.125
6	Norway	13	5,210,967	24.947
7	Denmark	14	5,669,081	24.695
8	Austria	21	8,544,586	24.577
9	United Kingdom	130	64,715,810	20.088
10	East Timor	2	1,184,765	16.881
11	Ireland	7	4,688,465	14.930
12	Israel	12	8,064,036	14.881
13	Germany	105	80,688,545	13.013
14	Netherlands	20	16,924,929	11.817
15	United States	360	321,773,631	11.188
16	France	62	64,395,345	9.628
—	European Union^[3]	474	505,150,401	9.383
17	Hungary	9	9,855,023	9.132
18	Finland	5	5,503,457	9.085
19	Belgium	10	11,299,192	8.850
20	Cyprus	1	1,165,300	8.581
21	Trinidad and Tobago	1	1,360,088	7.352
22	New Zealand	3	4,528,526	6.625
23	Canada	23	35,939,927	6.400
24	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	3,810,416	5.249
25	Latvia	1	1,970,503	5.075
26	Australia	12	23,968,973	5.006
27	Slovenia	1	2,067,526	4.837
28	Macedonia	1	2,078,453	4.811
29	Czech Republic	5	10,543,186	4.742
30	Liberia	2	4,503,438	4.441
31	Lithuania	1	2,878,405	3.474
32	Italy	20	59,797,685	3.345
—	Tibet^[4]	1	3,195,085	3.130
33	Poland	12	38,611,794	3.108
34	Croatia	1	4,240,317	2.358
35	Palestine	1	4,668,466	2.142
36	Belarus	2	9,495,826	2.106
37	Costa Rica	1	4,807,850	2.080
38	Romania	4	19,511,324	2.050
39	Japan	25	126,573,481	1.975
40	Portugal	2	10,349,803	1.932
41	South Africa	10	54,490,406	1.835
42	Greece	2	10,954,617	1.826
43	Spain	8	46,121,699	1.735
44	Russia	23	143,456,918	1.603
45	Bulgaria	1	7,149,787	1.399
—	Hong Kong	1	7,287,983	1.372
46	Guatemala	2	16,342,897	1.224
—	World^[5]	885	7,349,472,099	1.204
47	Argentina	5	43,416,755	1.152
48	Chile	2	17,948,141	1.114
49	Azerbaijan	1	9,753,968	1.025
50	Algeria	2	39,666,519	0.504
51	Ukraine	2	44,823,765	0.446
52	Egypt	4	91,508,084	0.437
53	Taiwan	1	23,381,038	0.428
54	Colombia	2	48,228,704	0.415
55	Yemen	1	26,832,215	0.373
56	Ghana	1	27,409,893	0.365
57	Venezuela	1	31,108,083	0.321
58	Peru	1	31,376,670	0.319
59	Morocco	1	34,377,511	0.291
60	Turkey	2	78,665,830	0.254
61	Iran	2	79,109,272	0.253
62	Mexico	3	127,017,224	0.236
63	Kenya	1	46,050,302	0.217
64	Korea, South	1	50,293,439	0.199
65	Myanmar	1	53,897,154	0.186
66	Vietnam	1	93,447,601	0.107
67	Pakistan	2	188,924,874	0.106
68	India	10	1,311,050,527	0.076
69	China	9	1,376,048,943	0.065
70	Bangladesh	1	160,995,642	0.062
71	Nigeria	1	182,201,962	0.055
72	Brazil	1	207,847,528	0.048

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^[1]	Population (2015)^[2]	Laureates/ 10 million
—	Faroe Islands	1	48,199	207.473
1	Saint Lucia	1	184,999	54.054
2	Luxembourg	2	567,110	35.267
3	Switzerland	20	8,298,663	24.100
4	Austria	18	8,544,586	21.066
5	Denmark	10	5,669,081	17.640
6	Sweden	17	9,779,426	17.383
7	United Kingdom	104	64,715,810	16.070
8	Norway	8	5,210,967	15.352
9	Netherlands	19	16,924,929	11.226
10	Germany	89	80,688,545	11.030
11	United States	327	321,773,631	10.162
12	Israel	8	8,064,036	9.921
13	Cyprus	1	1,165,300	8.581
14	Hungary	8	9,855,023	8.118
—	European Union^[6]	346	505,150,401	6.849
15	New Zealand	3	4,528,526	6.625
16	France	37	64,395,345	5.746
17	Canada	20	35,939,927	5.565
18	Finland	3	5,503,457	5.451
19	Belgium	6	11,299,192	5.310
20	Latvia	1	1,970,503	5.075
21	Slovenia	1	2,067,526	4.837
22	Australia	11	23,968,973	4.589
23	Ireland	2	4,688,465	4.266
24	Lithuania	1	2,878,405	3.474
25	Czech Republic	3	10,543,186	2.845
26	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	3,810,416	2.624
27	Croatia	1	4,240,317	2.358
28	Italy	13	59,797,685	2.174
29	Japan	22	126,573,481	1.738
—	Hong Kong	1	7,287,983	1.372
30	Poland	5	38,611,794	1.295
31	Russia	16	143,456,918	1.115
32	Belarus	1	9,495,826	1.053
33	Azerbaijan	1	9,753,968	1.025
34	Romania	2	19,511,324	1.025
35	Portugal	1	10,349,803	0.966
—	World^[5]	671	7,349,472,099	0.913
36	South Africa	4	54,490,406	0.734
37	Argentina	3	43,416,755	0.691
38	Spain	2	46,121,699	0.434
39	Taiwan	1	23,381,038	0.428
40	Venezuela	1	31,108,083	0.321
41	Morocco	1	34,377,511	0.291
42	Algeria	1	39,666,519	0.252
43	Ukraine	1	44,823,765	0.223
44	Turkey	1	78,665,830	0.127
45	Egypt	1	91,508,084	0.109
46	Mexico	1	127,017,224	0.079
47	Pakistan	1	188,924,874	0.053
48	Brazil	1	207,847,528	0.048
49	India	6	1,311,050,527	0.046
50	China	5	1,376,048,943	0.036

Inclusion criteria

The list of Nobel laureates by country was compiled by BBC News using the following criteria:^[1]

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.^[7]
No award was attributed to Azerbaijan, but, according to the Nobel Prize website, Lev Landau (Physics, 1962) was born in the area that is now held by that country (then part of the Russian Empire).^[8] 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.^[9]^[10]

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 Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
- Physics: 1 each to France, Morocco 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: 2 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.
2014 update:
- Physiology or Medicine: 2 to Norway and 1 each to the United Kingdom and the United States.
- Physics: 3 to Japan and 1 to the United States.
- Chemistry: 2 to the United States and 1 each to Germany and Romania.
- Literature: 1 to France.
- Peace: 1 each to India, Pakistan and the United Kingdom.
- Economic Sciences: 1 to France.
2015 update:
- Physiology or Medicine: 1 each to China, Ireland, Japan and the United States.
- Physics: 1 each to Canada and Japan.
- Chemistry: 2 to the United States and 1 each to Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
- Literature: 1 each to Belarus and Ukraine.
- Peace: Not applicable.
- Economic Sciences: 1 each to the United Kingdom and the United States.
2016 update:
- Physiology or Medicine: 1 to Japan.
- Physics: 3 each to the United Kingdom and the United States.
- Chemistry: 1 each to France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.
- Peace: 1 to Colombia.
- Economic Sciences: 2 to the United States and 1 each to Finland and the United Kingdom.
- Literature: 1 to the United States.

References

1 2 3 "Which country has the best brains?". BBC News. 2010-10-10. Retrieved 2010-10-10.
1 2 "Total Population - Both Sexes". World Population Prospects, the 2015 Revision. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, Population Estimates and Projections Section. 29 July 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
↑ Includes every credit given separately to each of the 28 EU member states. It does not include the Peace Prize given to the EU in 2012.
↑ A population estimate for 2015 was calculated using the average annual population growth in the Tibet Autonomous Region between the 2000 and 2010 censuses. 2000 census population: 2,616,329 (Source: National Bureau of Statistics of China). 2010 census population: 3,002,166 (Source: Xinhua News Agency). Formula used: 3002166+(2015-2010)*(3002166-2616329)/(2010-2000)=3195084.5.
1 2 In this case each Nobel laureate was only counted once, Source: "Nobel Prize Facts". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2014-10-09.
↑ Includes every credit given separately to each of the 28 EU member states.
↑ "Gabriel Lippmann – Biography". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
↑ "Lev Landau – Biography". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
↑ "Lawrence Bragg – Biography". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2012-08-16.
↑ "Aleksandr M. Prokhorov – Biography". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2012-08-16.

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