List of countries by Nobel laureates per capita

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

Rank	Entity	Nobel laureates[1]	Population (2018)[2]	Laureates/ 10 million
—	Faroe Islands	1	49,489	202.065
1	Saint Lucia	2	179,667	111.317
2	Luxembourg	2	590,321	33.880
3	Switzerland	27	8,544,034	31.6
4	Sweden	30	9,982,709	30.052
5	Iceland	1	337,780	29.605
6	Austria	22	8,751,820	25.138
7	Denmark	13	5,754,356	24.329
8	Norway	13	5,353,363	24.284
9	Ireland	11	4,803,748	22.898
10	United Kingdom	133	66,573,504	19.429
11	East Timor	2	1,324,094	15.105
12	Israel	12	8,452,841	14.196
13	Hungary	13	9,688,847	13.417
14	Germany	109	82,293,457	13.245
15	United States	383	326,766,748	11.721
16	Netherlands	21	17,084,459	11.707
17	France	70	65,233,271	10.664
—	European Union[3]	378	444,697,104	8.005
18	Finland	5	5,542,517	9.021
19	Belgium	10	11,498,519	8.697
20	Cyprus	1	1,189,085	8.410
21	Trinidad and Tobago	1	1,372,598	7.285
22	Canada	25	36,953,765	6.765
23	New Zealand	3	4,749,598	6.316
24	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	3,503,554	5.708
25	Latvia	1	1,929,938	5.182
26	Poland	19	38,104,832	4.986
27	Australia	12	24,772,247	4.844
28	Slovenia	1	2,081,260	4.805
29	North Macedonia	1	2,085,051	4.796
30	Czech Republic	5	10,625,250	4.706
31	Liberia	2	4,853,516	4.121
32	Lithuania	1	2,876,475	3.476
33	Italy	20	59,290,969	3.373
—	Tibet[4]	1	3,310,836	3.020
34	Croatia	1	4,164,783	2.401
35	Japan	28	127,185,332	2.202
36	Belarus	2	9,452,113	2.116
37	Romania	4	19,580,634	2.043
38	Costa Rica	1	4,953,199	2.019
39	Palestine	1	5,052,776	1.979
40	Portugal	2	10,291,196	1.943
41	Greece	2	11,142,161	1.795
42	South Africa	10	57,398,421	1.742
43	Spain	8	46,397,452	1.724
44	Russia	23	143,964,709	1.598
45	Bulgaria	1	7,036,848	1.421
—	Hong Kong	1	7,428,887	1.346
—	World[5]	919	7,632,819,325	1.204
46	Guatemala	2	17,245,346	1.160
47	Argentina	5	44,688,864	1.119
48	Chile	2	18,197,209	1.099
49	Azerbaijan	1	9,923,914	1.008
50	Algeria	2	42,008,054	0.476
51	Ukraine	2	44,009,214	0.454
52	Taiwan	1	23,694,089	0.422
53	Colombia	2	49,464,683	0.404
54	Egypt	4	99,375,741	0.403
55	South Korea	2	51,164,435	0.391
56	Yemen	1	28,915,284	0.346
57	Ghana	1	29,463,643	0.339
58	Venezuela	1	32,381,221	0.309
59	Peru	1	32,551,815	0.307
60	Morocco	1	36,191,805	0.276
61	Iraq	1	39,339,753	0.254
62	Turkey	2	81,916,871	0.244
63	Iran	2	82,011,735	0.244
64	Mexico	3	130,759,074	0.229
65	Kenya	1	50,950,879	0.196
66	Myanmar	1	53,855,735	0.186
67	DR Congo	1	84,004,989	0.119
68	Vietnam	1	96,491,146	0.104
69	Pakistan	2	200,813,818	0.100
70	Ethiopia	1	109,224,410[6]	0.092
71	India	11	1,354,051,854	0.081
72	China	9	1,415,045,928	0.064
73	Bangladesh	1	166,368,149	0.060
74	Nigeria	1	195,875,237	0.051

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

Rank	Entity	Nobel laureates[1]	Population (2018)[2]	Laureates/ 10 million
—	Faroe Islands	1	49,489	202.065
1	Saint Lucia	1	179,667	55.659
2	Luxembourg	2	590,321	33.880
3	Switzerland	25	8,544,034	29.260
4	Austria	18	8,751,820	20.567
5	Denmark	10	5,754,356	17.378
6	Sweden	17	9,982,709	17.029
7	United Kingdom	109	66,573,504	16.373
8	Norway	8	5,353,363	14.944
9	Germany	92	82,293,457	11.180
10	Netherlands	19	17,084,459	11.121
11	United States	350	326,766,748	10.711
12	Israel	8	8,452,841	9.464
13	Cyprus	1	1,189,085	8.410
14	Hungary	12	9,688,847	8.257
—	European Union[7]	247	443,123,600	5.574
15	New Zealand	3	4,749,598	6.316
16	France	39	65,233,271	5.979
17	Canada	22	36,953,765	5.953
18	Finland	3	5,542,517	5.413
19	Belgium	6	11,498,519	5.218
20	Latvia	1	1,929,938	5.182
21	Slovenia	1	2,081,260	4.805
22	Australia	11	24,772,247	4.440
23	Ireland	2	4,803,748	4.163
24	Lithuania	1	2,876,475	3.476
25	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	3,503,554	2.854
26	Czech Republic	3	10,625,250	2.823
27	Croatia	1	4,164,783	2.401
28	Italy	13	59,290,969	2.193
29	Japan	24	127,185,332	1.887
—	Hong Kong	1	7,428,887	1.346
30	Poland	5	38,104,832	1.312
31	Russia	16	143,964,709	1.111
32	Belarus	1	9,452,113	1.058
33	Romania	2	19,580,634	1.021
34	Azerbaijan	1	9,923,914	1.008
35	Portugal	1	10,291,196	0.972
—	World[5]	697	7,632,819,325	0.913
36	South Africa	4	57,398,421	0.697
37	Argentina	3	44,688,864	0.671
38	Spain	2	46,397,452	0.431
39	Taiwan	1	23,694,089	0.422
40	Venezuela	1	32,381,221	0.309
41	Morocco	1	36,191,805	0.276
42	Algeria	1	42,008,054	0.238
43	Ukraine	1	44,009,214	0.227
45	Turkey	1	81,916,871	0.122
46	Egypt	1	99,375,741	0.101
47	Mexico	1	130,759,074	0.076
48	India	7	1,354,051,854	0.052
49	Pakistan	1	200,813,818	0.050
50	Brazil	1	210,867,954	0.047
51	China	5	1,415,045,928	0.035

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

• Prizes are allocated to the country or 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.

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).

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.[8]
• 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).[9] 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.[10][11]
• BBC News correctly acknowledges South Korea as having two Nobel laureates associated with that country, but due an error in its spreadsheet only one of them is assigned to a particular prize (Peace, 2000). The one that was not specified is Charles J. Pedersen (Chemistry, 1987), who was born in Busan, according to the Nobel Prize website.[12]

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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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