Small European nations outperform the big ones by the per capita metric in life and agriculture sciences too. Switzerland with 4 universities in the 100 top ranking gets an index of 53, while the median is 16 (corresponding to the UK score). The USA have a per capita index of 19 only, but with 62 universities in the list they command the field.
100 Top World-class Universities per Capita | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr/Millionx100) | ||
| Switzerland | 4 | 7.54 | 53.1 |
| Belgium | 3 | 10.50 | 28.6 |
| Sweden | 2 | 9.20 | 21.7 |
| Finland | 1 | 5.31 | 18.8 |
| USA | 58 | 311.75 | 18.6 |
| Denmark | 1 | 5.46 | 18.3 |
| UK | 10 | 61.27 | 16.3 |
| Canada | 5 | 33.46 | 14.9 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 16.48 | 12.1 |
| Australia | 4 | 40.34 | 9.9 |
| Germany | 6 | 82.45 | 7.3 |
| Japan | 3 | 127.87 | 2.3 |
| France | 1 | 62.23 | 1.6 |
| Median | 3 | 16.3 | |
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Sources: see Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division
