The United States lead the 2014 academic ranking of the world top 100 universities in natural sciences and mathematics with 45 universities, 5 shorter than in 2013, being followed with a big gap by the United Kingdom with 10, Germany with 9, France with 7 and Japan 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 : Switzerland, Israel, Denmark and Finland.
World top 100 universities | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr / Million x 100) | ||
| Australia | 1 | 23.6 | 4.2 |
| Austria | 1 | 8.5 | 11.7 |
| Canada | 2 | 35.5 | 5.6 |
| China | 3 | 1393.8 | 0.2 |
| Denmark | 2 | 5.6 | 35.5 |
| Finland | 1 | 5.4 | 18.4 |
| France | 7 | 64.6 | 10.8 |
| Germany | 9 | 82.7 | 10.9 |
| Israel | 3 | 7.8 | 38.4 |
| Italy | 1 | 61.1 | 1.6 |
| Japan | 6 | 127 | 4.7 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 16.8 | 6 |
| Russia | 1 | 142.5 | 0.7 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 29.4 | 3.4 |
| South Korea | 1 | 49.5 | 2 |
| Spain | 1 | 47.1 | 2.1 |
| Switzerland | 4 | 8.2 | 49 |
| United Kingdom | 10 | 63.5 | 15.8 |
| United States | 45 | 322.6 | 13.9 |
| Total | 100 | ||
| Median | 6 | ||
| Average | 12.4 | ||
| ¹ Browse the complete List of 200 natural sciences and mathematics universities. | |||
Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai, UN Population Division, and CIA - The World Factbook.
