Nobel Laureates per Million People
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ISRAEL RANKINGS
Science
Nobel Laureates per Million People
Israel Other country
3.19
Sweden
3.02
Switzerland
2.72
Austria
2.09
United Kingdom
1.62
Hungary
1.49
Israel
1.38
Germany
1.26
United States
1.23
Netherlands
1.15
France
0.77
Canada
0.55
Australia
0.49
Poland
0.34
Italy
0.28
Japan
0.21
Russia
Nobel laureates per million inhabitants, among the 16 countries with the most laureates. Israel in blue.
Israel has 14 Nobel laureates, counted under the countries named by the Nobel committee. That is about 1.5 laureates per million people. Among the 16 countries with the most laureates, only Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, the United Kingdom and Hungary rank higher on this measure.
The comparison is limited to those 16 countries. Small countries with only a few laureates could also rank high per person, and are not shown.
Sources. Laureate counts from the Wikipedia list of Nobel laureates by country, which follows the Nobel committee’s country affiliations, to be checked against nobelprize.org before print. Population from the CIA World Factbook, last edition before its retirement in February 2026, from the public factbook.json archive.
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