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Nobel Prize for Literature Per Capita


areppim X-Y scatter chart and statistics of literature Nobel prize winners by nation per capita from 1901 to 2023, the per capita ratio being calculated as the number of prizes divided by million people and multiplied by 100. With about 200 thousand nationals, the Caribbean island-state of Saint Lucia is far above all other nations in Nobel prizes for literature per capita, reaching an index of  542, or  54 times the median 10.

 

With about 200 thousand nationals, the Caribbean island-state of Saint Lucia is far above all other nations in Nobel prizes for literature per capita, reaching an index of 538, or 54 times the median 10. In fact, Saint-Lucia could further claim the honor of being the nation with the most Nobel prizes per capita, all categories included, if only Arthur Lewis, Nobel prize for economics in 1979, had been given his native country citizenship, instead of becoming British for the sole reason that he was born under UK colonial rule. Literature is also the only discipline in which a Stateless person held the award — it happened with Russian-born Ivan Bunin in 1933.

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Nobel Prize for Literature

1901 - 2023

Country ¹NumberPopulation 2023Per capita
(million)(number÷million×100)
Australia126.33.8
Austria29.122.0
Belgium111.78.5
Bosnia & Herzegovina13.230.9
Canada138.72.6
Chile219.210.4
China11,452.10.1
Colombia151.71.9
Czechia110.79.3
Denmark35.951.2
Egypt1108.00.9
Finland15.618.0
France1665.724.3
Germany883.89.5
Greece210.319.5
Guatemala118.95.3
Hungary19.610.4
Iceland10.3287.9
India11,419.70.1
Ireland45.179.2
Israel19.111.0
Italy660.110.0
Japan2125.11.6
Mauritius 11.378.4
Mexico1132.80.8
Nigeria1222.20.5
Norway45.672.0
Peru134.02.9
Poland537.713.3
Portugal110.19.9
Russia4145.62.7
Saint Lucia10.2538.3
South Africa261.53.3
Spain546.710.7
Stateless1  
Sweden810.377.9
Switzerland28.822.7
Tanzania165.11.5
Turkey186.01.2
Ukraine142.92.3
United Kingdom1268.817.5
United States13336.73.9
Total124  
Median  9.9
Average  36.0
¹ Double nationals are counted twice, once for each nationality.
   Former Yugoslavia appears under Bosnia and Herzegovina.
   Former Czechoslovakia appears under Czechia.
   Former Soviet Union appears under Russia.

 

Sources: Nobelprize and UN Population Division