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Israel, Switzerland and Sweden have the highest per capita indexes of 100-ranked universities in the field of Natural Sciences and Mathematics . The per capita median 9.05 corresponds to the ranking of Germany or France.
The USA dominates in absolute terms - 54 universities or 27 times the median of 2 - and belongs to the high-performing 5 nations that are above the average (red line) — nevertheless, in per capita terms, they are outdistanced by the small industrialized nations.
100 Top Universities per Capita | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr/Millionx100) | ||
| Australia | 1 | 21.51 | 4.65 |
| Canada | 2 | 33.89 | 5.90 |
| Denmark | 1 | 5.48 | 18.24 |
| France | 6 | 62.64 | 9.58 |
| Germany | 7 | 82.06 | 8.53 |
| Israel | 4 | 7.29 | 54.91 |
| Italy | 1 | 60.10 | 1.66 |
| Japan | 6 | 127.00 | 4.72 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 16.65 | 12.01 |
| Russia | 1 | 140.37 | 0.71 |
| South Korea | 1 | 48.5 | 2.06 |
| Sweden | 2 | 9.29 | 21.52 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 7.59 | 39.50 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 23.02 | 4.34 |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 61.90 | 12.92 |
| United States | 54 | 317.64 | 17.00 |
| Median | 2 | 9.05 | |
Sources: see Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division