List of countries by Nobel laureates per capita

This article includes lists of sovereign countries, territories, and supranational unions by Nobel laureates per capita. That is, lists of said entities ranked by their Nobel Prize winners in relation to their current population. The article does not account for a country's population at the time each prize was awarded. Nobel Prizes have been awarded over more than 100 years, during which time national populations have varied very significantly. Because the population of an entity 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 an entity for every 10 million of its population.
The figures include all Nobel Prizes awarded to individuals up to and including 14 October 2019.
Note: Only sovereign countries are ranked; unranked entities are marked in italics.

All prizes

All five prizes and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences are considered.

Rank	Entity	Nobel laureates	Population	Laureates/ 10 million
—	'	1	49,489	202.065
1		2	179,667	111.317
2		2	590,321	33.880
3		28	8,544,034	32.771
4		30	9,982,709	30.052
5		1	337,780	29.605
6		22	8,751,820	25.138
7		14	5,754,356	24.329
8		13	5,353,363	24.284
9		133	66,573,504	19.429
10		2	1,324,094	15.105
11		7	4,803,748	14.572
12		12	8,452,841	14.196
13		13	9,688,847	13.417
13		108	82,293,457	13.245
15		383	326,766,748	11.721
16		21	17,084,459	11.707
17		70	65,233,271	10.664
—	'	378	444,697,104	8.005
18		5	5,542,517	9.021
19		10	11,498,519	8.697
20		1	1,189,085	8.410
21		1	1,372,598	7.285
22		25	36,953,765	6.765
23		3	4,749,598	6.316
24		2	3,503,554	5.708
25		1	1,929,938	5.182
26		19	38,104,832	4.986
27		12	24,772,247	4.844
28		1	2,081,260	4.805
29		1	2,085,051	4.796
30		5	10,625,250	4.706
31		2	4,853,516	4.121
32		1	2,876,475	3.476
33		20	59,290,969	3.373
—	'	1	3,310,836	3.020
34		1	4,164,783	2.401
35		28	127,185,332	2.202
36		2	9,452,113	2.116
37		4	19,580,634	2.043
38		1	4,953,199	2.019
39		1	5,052,776	1.979
40		2	10,291,196	1.943
41		2	11,142,161	1.795
42		10	57,398,421	1.742
43		8	46,397,452	1.724
44		23	143,964,709	1.598
45		1	7,036,848	1.421
—	'	1	7,428,887	1.346
—	World	919	7,632,819,325	1.204
46		2	17,245,346	1.160
47		5	44,688,864	1.119
48		2	18,197,209	1.099
49		1	9,923,914	1.008
50		2	42,008,054	0.476
51		2	44,009,214	0.454
52		1	23,694,089	0.422
53		2	49,464,683	0.404
54		4	99,375,741	0.403
55		2	51,164,435	0.391
56		1	28,915,284	0.346
57		1	29,463,643	0.339
58		1	32,381,221	0.309
59		1	32,551,815	0.307
60		1	36,191,805	0.276
61		1	39,339,753	0.254
62		2	81,916,871	0.244
63		2	82,011,735	0.244
64		3	130,759,074	0.229
65		1	50,950,879	0.196
66		1	53,855,735	0.186
67		1	84,004,989	0.119
68		1	96,491,146	0.104
69		2	200,813,818	0.100
70		1	109,224,410	0.092
71		11	1,354,051,854	0.081
72		9	1,415,045,928	0.064
73		1	166,368,149	0.060
74		1	195,875,237	0.051

By [United Nations geoscheme]

Region	Countries	Nobel laureates	Population	Laureates/ 10 million
Europe	48	561	747,182,815	7.508
Northern Europe	13	209	105,768,532	19.760
Western Europe	9	256	195,522,412	13.093
Southern Europe	16	37	152,446,950	2.427
Eastern Europe	10	59	293,444,921	2.011
Americas	55	429	1,014,721,900	4.228
Northern America	5	408	366,600,944	11.129
Latin America and the Caribbean	50	21	648,120,956	0.324
Caribbean	28	3	43,335,006	0.692
Central America	8	6	177,586,525	0.338
South America	14	12	427,199,425	0.281
Oceania	23	15	42,128,048	3.561
Australia/New Zealand	2	15	29,986,262	5.002
Oceania	21	0	12,141,786	0.000
Melanesia	5	0	10,918,534	0.000
Micronesia	7	0	543,483	0.000
Polynesia	9	0	679,769	0.000
World	236	919	7,713,468,205	1.191
Africa	58	24	1,308,064,176	0.183
Northern Africa	7	7	241,780,765	0.290
Sub-Saharan Africa	51	17	1,066,283,411	0.159
Southern Africa	5	10	66,629,894	1.501
Western Africa	17	4	391,440,147	0.102
Middle Africa	9	1	174,308,427	0.057
Eastern Africa	20	2	433,904,943	0.046
Asia	52	81	4,601,371,266	0.176
Western Asia	18	19	275,324,793	0.690
Eastern Asia	9	42	1,672,611,120	0.251
Southern Asia	9	16	1,918,211,396	0.083
South-Eastern Asia	11	4	662,011,846	0.060
Central Asia	5	0	73,212,111	0.000

Scientific prizes

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

Rank	Entity	Nobel laureates	Population	Laureates/ 10 million
—	'	1	49,489	202.065
1		1	179,667	55.659
2		2	590,321	33.880
3		25	8,544,034	29.260
4		18	8,751,820	20.567
5		10	5,754,356	17.378
6		17	9,982,709	17.029
7		109	66,573,504	16.373
8		8	5,353,363	14.944
9		92	82,293,457	11.180
10		19	17,084,459	11.121
11		350	326,766,748	10.711
12		8	8,452,841	9.464
13		1	1,189,085	8.410
14		11	9,688,847	8.257
—	'	247	443,123,600	5.574
15		3	4,749,598	6.316
16		39	65,233,271	5.979
17		22	36,953,765	5.953
18		3	5,542,517	5.413
19		6	11,498,519	5.218
20		1	1,929,938	5.182
21		1	2,081,260	4.805
22		11	24,772,247	4.440
23		2	4,803,748	4.163
24		1	2,876,475	3.476
25		1	3,503,554	2.854
26		3	10,625,250	2.823
27		1	4,164,783	2.401
28		13	59,290,969	2.193
29		24	127,185,332	1.887
—		1	7,428,887	1.346
30		5	38,104,832	1.312
31		16	143,964,709	1.111
32		1	9,452,113	1.058
33		2	19,580,634	1.021
34		1	9,923,914	1.008
35		1	10,291,196	0.972
—	World	697	7,632,819,325	0.913
36		4	57,398,421	0.697
37		3	44,688,864	0.671
38		2	46,397,452	0.431
39		1	23,694,089	0.422
40		1	32,381,221	0.309
41		1	36,191,805	0.276
42		1	42,008,054	0.238
43		1	44,009,214	0.227
45		1	81,916,871	0.122
46		1	99,375,741	0.101
47		1	130,759,074	0.076
48		7	1,354,051,854	0.052
49		1	200,813,818	0.050
50		1	210,867,954	0.047
51		5	1,415,045,928	0.035
52		0	51,164,435	0

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.
Where the website mentions multiple countries in relation to a prize winner each of those countries is credited as having won the prize.
Where a prize has multiple winners, the country 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.

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 was born in that country.
No award was attributed to Azerbaijan, but, according to the Nobel Prize website, Lev Landau was born in the area that is now held by that country. 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 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 and Aleksandr Prokhorov, both of whom were born there according to the Nobel Prize website.
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. The one that was not specified is Charles J. Pedersen, who was born in Busan, 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 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.
2017 update:
* Physiology or Medicine: 3 to the United States.
* Physics: 3 to the United States and 1 to Germany.
* Chemistry: 1 each to Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
* Literature: 1 each to Japan and the United Kingdom.
* Peace: Not applicable.
* Economic Sciences: 1 to the United States.
2018 update:
* Physiology or Medicine: 1 each to Japan and the United States.
* Physics: 2 to the United States and 1 each to Canada and France.
* Chemistry: 2 to the United States and 1 to the United Kingdom.
* Literature: Awarded in 2019.
* Peace: 1 each to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Germany and Iraq.
* Economic Sciences: 2 to the United States.
2019 update:
* Physiology or Medicine: 2 to the United States and 1 to the United Kingdom.
* Physics: 2 to Switzerland and 1 each to Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
* Chemistry: 2 to the United States and 1 each to Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom.
* Literature: 1 each to Austria, France and Poland.
* Peace: 1 to Ethiopia.
* Economic Sciences: 3 to the United States, and 1 each to France and India.

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