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 28 8,544,034 32.771
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 14 5,754,356 24.329
8 Norway 13 5,353,363 24.284
9 United Kingdom 133 66,573,504 19.429
10 East Timor 2 1,324,094 15.105
11 Ireland 7 4,803,748 14.572
12 Israel 12 8,452,841 14.196
13 Hungary 13 9,688,847 13.417
13 Germany 108 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
