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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

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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[୧]		 Population
(2013)[୨]		 Laureates/
10 million
— Faroe Islands149,469202.147
1 Saint Lucia2182,273109.726
2 Luxembourg2530,38037.709
3  Switzerland258,077,83330.949
4 Iceland1329,53530.346
5 Sweden299,571,10530.300
6 Denmark145,619,09624.915
7 Austria218,495,14524.720
8 Norway115,042,67121.814
9 United Kingdom12163,136,26519.165
10ଛାଞ୍ଚ:Country data East Timor21,132,87917.654
11 Israel127,733,14415.518
12 Ireland64,627,17312.967
13 Germany10482,726,62612.572
14 Netherlands1916,759,22911.337
15 United States347320,050,71610.842
16 France5964,291,2809.177
17 Hungary99,954,9419.041
18 Belgium1011,104,4769.005
— European Union[୩]456509,472,3908.950
19 Cyprus11,141,1668.763
20 Trinidad and Tobago11,341,1517.456
21 Finland45,426,3237.371
22 New Zealand34,505,7616.658
23 Canada2235,181,7046.253
24 Bosnia and Herzegovina23,829,3075.223
25 Australia1223,342,5535.141
26 Latvia12,050,3174.877
27 Slovenia12,071,9974.826
28 Macedonia12,107,1584.746
29 Czech Republic510,702,1974.672
30 Liberia24,294,0774.658
31 Lithuania13,016,9333.315
32 Italy2060,990,2773.279
—ଛାଞ୍ଚ:Country data Tibet[୪]13,117,9173.207
33 Poland1238,216,6353.140
34 Croatia14,289,7142.331
35 Palestine14,326,2952.311
36 Costa Rica14,872,1662.052
37 South Africa1052,776,1301.895
38 Portugal210,608,1561.885
39 Greece211,127,9901.797
40 Spain846,926,9631.705
41 Russia23142,833,6891.610
42 Japan19127,143,5771.494
— Serbia17,186,8621.391
— Hong Kong17,203,8361.388
43 Bulgaria17,222,9431.384
44 Romania321,698,5851.383
45 Guatemala215,468,2031.293
46 Argentina541,446,2461.206
— World[୫]8517,162,119,4341.188
47 Chile217,619,7081.135
48 Belarus19,356,6781.069
49 Azerbaijan19,413,4201.062
50 Algeria239,208,1940.510
51 Egypt482,056,3780.487
52 Taiwan123,329,7720.429
53 Yemen124,407,3810.410
54 Ghana125,904,5980.386
55 Peru130,375,6030.329
56 Venezuela130,405,2070.329
57 Morocco133,008,1500.303
58 Iran277,447,1680.258
59 Mexico3122,332,3990.245
60 Kenya144,353,6910.225
61 Ukraine145,238,8050.221
62 Colombia148,321,4050.207
63ଛାଞ୍ଚ:Country data Korea, South149,262,6980.203
64 Myanmar153,259,0180.188
65 Turkey174,932,6410.133
66 Vietnam191,679,7330.109
67 India91,252,139,5960.072
68 Bangladesh1156,594,9620.064
69 China81,385,566,5370.058
70 Nigeria1173,615,3450.058
71 Pakistan1182,142,5940.055

Scientific prizes

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

Rank Country Nobel
laureates[୧]		 Population
(2013)[୨]		 Laureates/
10 million
— Faroe Islands149,469202.147
1 Saint Lucia1182,27354.863
2 Luxembourg2530,38037.709
3  Switzerland20[୬][୭]8,077,83324.759
4 Austria18[୮] [୯]8,495,14521.189
5 Denmark105,619,09617.796
6 Sweden169,571,10516.717
7 United Kingdom9663,136,26515.205
8 Norway65,042,67111.898
9 Netherlands1816,759,22910.740
10 Germany8882,726,62610.637
11 Israel87,733,14410.345
12 United States314320,050,7169.811
13 Cyprus11,141,1668.763
14 Hungary19[୧୦][୧୧][୧୨][୧୩]9,954,9418.036
15 New Zealand34,505,7616.658
— European Union[୩]330509,472,3906.477
16 France3564,291,2805.444
17 Belgium611,104,4765.403
18 Canada1935,181,7045.401
19 Latvia12,050,3174.877
20 Slovenia12,071,9974.826
21 Australia1123,342,5534.712
22 Finland25,426,3233.686
23 Lithuania13,016,9333.315
24 Czech Republic310,702,1972.803
25 Bosnia and Herzegovina13,829,3072.611
26 Croatia14,289,7142.331
27 Ireland14,627,1732.161
28 Italy1360,990,2772.131
— Hong Kong17,203,8361.388
29 Poland538,216,6351.308
30 Japan16127,143,5771.258
31 Russia16142,833,6891.120
32 Belarus19,356,6781.069
33 Azerbaijan19,413,4201.062
34 Portugal110,608,1560.943
— World[୫]6407,162,119,4340.894
35 South Africa452,776,1300.758
36 Argentina341,446,2460.724
37 Romania121,698,5850.461
38 Taiwan123,329,7720.429
39 Spain246,926,9630.426
40 Venezuela130,405,2070.329
41 Morocco133,008,1500.303
42 Algeria139,208,1940.255
43 Ukraine145,238,8050.221
44 Egypt182,056,3780.122
45 Mexico1122,332,3990.082
46 Pakistan1182,142,5940.055
48 India61,252,139,5960.048
49 China41,385,566,5370.029

Inclusion criteria

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The list of Nobel laureates by country was compiled by BBC News using the following criteria:[୧]

  • 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

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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.[୧୪]
  • 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).[୧୫] 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.[୧୬][୧୭]

Updates

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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

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References

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  1. 1 2 3 "Which country has the best brains?". BBC News. 2010-10-10. Retrieved 2010-10-10.
  2. 1 2 "Total Population - Both Sexes". World Population Prospects, the 2012 Revision. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, Population Estimates and Projections Section. 13 June 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  3. 1 2 Includes every credit given separately to each of the 28 EU member states.
  4. ↑ A population estimate for 2013 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+3*(3002166-2616329)/10=3117917.1.
  5. 1 2 In this case each Nobel laureate was only counted once, Source: "Nobel Prize Facts". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2013-10-07.
  6. ↑ "Vladimir Prelog – Facts". NobelPrize.org (in ଆମେରିକୀୟ ଇଂରାଜୀ). Retrieved 2025-08-04.
  7. ↑ Haesen, Sophie; Shaw, David (2018-05-16). "Directing citizens to create advance directives". Swiss Medical Weekly. doi:10.4414/smw.2018.14628. ISSN 1424-3997.
  8. ↑ "Zsigmondy, Emil". doi.org. Retrieved 2025-08-05.
  9. ↑ "Vladimir Prelog – Facts". NobelPrize.org (in ଆମେରିକୀୟ ଇଂରାଜୀ). Retrieved 2025-08-04.
  10. ↑ "Vladimir Prelog – Facts". NobelPrize.org (in ଆମେରିକୀୟ ଇଂରାଜୀ). Retrieved 2025-08-03.
  11. ↑ "Hungary's Nobel Prize Winners". MTA.hu (in ହଙ୍ଗେରୀୟ). 2016-02-17. Retrieved 2025-08-03.
  12. ↑ "Leopold Ruzicka – Facts". NobelPrize.org (in ଆମେରିକୀୟ ଇଂରାଜୀ). Retrieved 2025-08-03.
  13. ↑ "George J. Stigler – Biographical". NobelPrize.org (in ଆମେରିକୀୟ ଇଂରାଜୀ). Retrieved 2025-08-03.
  14. ↑ "Gabriel Lippmann – Biography". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
  15. ↑ "Lev Landau – Biography". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
  16. ↑ "Lawrence Bragg – Biography". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2012-08-16.
  17. ↑ "Aleksandr M. Prokhorov – Biography". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2012-08-16.

Further reading

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  • 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
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