The domineering position of the USA in the field of social sciences, with 70 world-class universities and a 23 per capita index (the median index is 19.7) is a possible explanation of the planet-wide diffusion of US ideology in the social and economic spheres in the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Top 100 World-class Universities per Capita | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
Million | (Nbr/Millionx100) | ||
Israel | 2 | 7.16 | 27.9 |
Netherlands | 4 | 16.48 | 24.3 |
Canada | 8 | 33.46 | 23.9 |
USA | 70 | 311.75 | 22.5 |
Norway | 1 | 4.76 | 21.0 |
Denmark | 1 | 5.46 | 18.3 |
UK | 11 | 61.27 | 18.0 |
Belgium | 1 | 10.50 | 9.5 |
Australia | 1 | 21.16 | 4.7 |
China | 1 | 1,343.93 | 0.1 |
Median | 1.5 | 19.7 |
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Sources: see Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division