Western and eastern heavy-weights come at the top of the world 100 best universities in chemistry in 2012. The top 5 nations are the United States with 45 universities listed, Germany and Japan with 8 each, and China and the United Kingdom with 6 each. The per capita index displays a different hierarchy, placing at the top a bunch of small but highly developed countries. They are Singapore, Israel, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark. They all score much above the median and the average (red line).
World top 100 universities in Chemistry | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr/Millionx100) | ||
| Australia | 3 | 21.8 | 13.8 |
| Canada | 4 | 34.3 | 11.7 |
| China | 6 | 1,366.6 | 0.4 |
| China, Hong Kong | 2 | 7.6 | 26.5 |
| China, Taiwan | 1 | 23.1 | 4.3 |
| Denmark | 1 | 5.5 | 18.2 |
| France | 1 | 63.0 | 1.6 |
| Germany | 8 | 82.2 | 9.7 |
| India | 1 | 1,253.6 | 0.1 |
| Israel | 2 | 7.5 | 26.7 |
| Italy | 2 | 59.1 | 3.4 |
| Japan | 8 | 127.4 | 6.3 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 16.6 | 12.1 |
| Singapore | 2 | 4.7 | 42.7 |
| Spain | 2 | 45.5 | 4.4 |
| Sweden | 2 | 9.3 | 21.5 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 7.6 | 26.2 |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 62.0 | 9.7 |
| United States | 45 | 320.5 | 14.0 |
| Median | 2.0 | 11.7 | |
| Average | 5.3 | 13.3 | |
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Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division
