Nobel laureates per capita

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This article includes lists of countries, organisations, continents and religions by Nobel laureates per capita. That is, a list of said entities ranked by their Nobel Prize winners in relation to their population. 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 896 Nobel Prizes awarded to individuals up to and including 9 October 2017.

Note: Non-sovereign countries are given a line (--) instead of a number and are marked in italics.

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All prizes

All five prizes (Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine) and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences are considered.
This list includes countries, territories, organizations, continents and religions.

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Scientific prizes

Only the awards for Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences are considered.
So far, this list only includes countries, territories, the European Union and the global amount of laureates. It does not yet include other organizations, continents or religions, like the list above.

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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 (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).

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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.
• 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). 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.

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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.

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See also

• List of Nobel laureates by country

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References

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Further reading

• 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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External links

• All Nobel Laureates
• Graph of Nobel shares by country (yearly cumulative)

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