The 2016 ranking of the top 200 social sciences universities shows the United States presiding the club with 97, or 49% of the slots, surrounded by two other Anglo-Saxon nations, United Kingdom and Canada, respectively with 25 and 14 universities in the top 200 list.
The per capita ranking is headed by Hong Kong, followed by the Netherlands, Denmark, Australia and Sweden, with indexes 2.5 to 1.5 times greater than the average (red line) and the median.
World top 200 universities in Social Science | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr / Million x 100) | ||
| Australia | 10 | 24.223 | 41.28 |
| Austria | 1 | 8.589 | 11.64 |
| Belgium | 3 | 11.222 | 26.73 |
| Canada | 14 | 36.222 | 38.65 |
| China | 3 | 1,408.922 | 0.21 |
| Denmark | 3 | 5.684 | 52.78 |
| Finland | 1 | 5.478 | 18.26 |
| France | 1 | 65.316 | 1.53 |
| Germany | 7 | 82.453 | 8.49 |
| Hong Kong | 5 | 7.365 | 67.89 |
| Israel | 3 | 8.028 | 37.37 |
| Italy | 1 | 61.211 | 1.63 |
| Netherlands | 11 | 16.885 | 65.15 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 4.641 | 21.55 |
| Norway | 2 | 5.196 | 38.49 |
| Singapore | 2 | 5.717 | 34.98 |
| South Africa | 1 | 53.835 | 1.86 |
| Spain | 1 | 47.333 | 2.11 |
| Sweden | 4 | 9.759 | 40.99 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 8.320 | 36.06 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 24.983 | 4.00 |
| United Kingdom | 25 | 64.200 | 38.94 |
| United States | 97 | 327.690 | 29.60 |
| Total | 200 | ||
| Average | 8.7 | 27.0 | |
| Median | 3.0 | 29.6 | |
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Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division
