How many Nobel laureates were born there?
Nobel laureates per 10 million people, 160 countries & territories. Nobel Prize laureates born within the country’s present-day borders, per 10 million current residents. People only (organisations excluded), each person counted once, from the official Nobel Prize data (CC0). Birthplace is not the same as where the work was done. Countries under 1 million people are left out, because a single laureate would dominate the rate.
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Source: Nobel Prize Outreach· 2025
Dots sit on a scale from the lowest (0) to the highest value (28.3).
The ranking
- 1
Sweden 28.3 2025
- 2
Norway 23.2 2025
- 3
Switzerland 20.9 2025
- 4
Austria 20.6 2025
- 5
Denmark 20 2025
- 6
United Kingdom 15.8 2025
- 7
Timor-Leste 14.1 2025
- 8
Hungary 12.6 2025
- 9
Netherlands 11.1 2025
- 10
Lithuania 10.4 2025
- 11
Germany 10.1 2025
- 12
France 9.3 2025
- 13
Ireland 9.1 2025
- 14
Finland 8.9 2025
- 15
United States 8.7 2025
- 16
Poland 7.7 2025
- 17
Belgium 7.5 2025
- 18
Trinidad and Tobago 7.3 2025
- 19
Cyprus 7.3 2025
- 20
Bosnia and Herzegovina 6.4 2025
- 21
Israel 5.9 2025
- 22
New Zealand 5.6 2025
- 23
Czechia 5.5 2025
- 24
North Macedonia 5.5 2025
- 25
Latvia 5.4 2025
- 26
Canada 5.3 2025
- 27
Slovenia 4.7 2025
- 28
Belarus 4.4 2025
- 29
Australia 3.6 2025
- 30
Liberia 3.5 2025
- 31
Italy 3.4 2025
- 32
Croatia 2.6 2025
- 33
Japan 2.4 2025
- 34
Romania 2.1 2025
- 35
Russia 2 2025
- 36
Costa Rica 1.9 2025
- 37
Portugal 1.9 2025
- 38
Slovakia 1.8 2025
- 39
Lebanon 1.7 2025
- 40
Bulgaria 1.6 2025
- 41
Spain 1.4 2025
- 42
South Africa 1.4 2025
- 43
Ukraine 1.3 2025
- 44
Guatemala 1.1 2025
- 45
Chile 1 2025
- 46
Azerbaijan 1 2025
- 47
Greece 1 2025
- 48
Argentina 0.9 2025
- 49
Jordan 0.9 2025
- 50
Tunisia 0.8 2025