The United States lead the 2013 academic ranking of the world top 100 universities in natural sciences and mathematics with 50 universities, and are followed with a big gap by the United Kingdom with 9, and France, Germany and Japan each with 6 universities.
A set of small industrialized nations grab the top slots of the per capita ranking, and place themselves above the average (red line) and the median : Israel, Switzerland, Denmark and Finland.
World top 100 universities in Natural Sciences and Mathematics | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr/Millionx100) | ||
| Australia | 2 | 22.0 | 9.1 |
| Canada | 2 | 34.6 | 5.8 |
| China | 1 | 1,374.1 | 0.1 |
| Denmark | 2 | 5.5 | 36.4 |
| Finland | 1 | 5.4 | 18.7 |
| France | 6 | 63.3 | 9.5 |
| Germany | 6 | 82.1 | 7.3 |
| Israel | 4 | 7.6 | 52.7 |
| Italy | 3 | 59.1 | 5.1 |
| Japan | 6 | 127.2 | 4.7 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 16.6 | 12.1 |
| Russia | 1 | 138.0 | 0.7 |
| Sweden | 1 | 9.4 | 10.7 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 7.6 | 39.2 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 23.3 | 4.3 |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 62.3 | 14.5 |
| United States | 50 | 323.4 | 15.5 |
| Median | 2 | 9.5 | |
| Average | 6 | 14.5 | |
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Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai, UN Population Division, and CIA - The World Factbook.
