The 2013 ranking of the world 100 top universities in chemistry is headed by the United States with 44 universities, followed by Germany and Japan with 8 each, China with 7, and the United Kingdom with 6.
Singapore, Israel, Hong Kong, Switzerland, and Sweden occupy the top 5 places of the per capita ranking, all of them scoring indexes well above the median and the average (red line).
World top 100 universities in Chemistry | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr/Millionx100) | ||
| Australia | 4 | 22.0 | 18.2 |
| Canada | 3 | 34.6 | 8.7 |
| China | 7 | 1,374.1 | 0.5 |
| France | 1 | 63.3 | 1.6 |
| Germany | 8 | 82.1 | 9.7 |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 7.6 | 26.3 |
| India | 1 | 1,270.1 | 0.1 |
| Israel | 2 | 7.6 | 26.3 |
| Italy | 2 | 59.1 | 3.4 |
| Japan | 8 | 127.2 | 6.3 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 16.6 | 12.1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 28.1 | 3.6 |
| Singapore | 2 | 4.7 | 42.3 |
| Spain | 2 | 45.7 | 4.4 |
| Sweden | 2 | 9.4 | 21.4 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 7.6 | 26.2 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 23.3 | 4.3 |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 62.3 | 9.6 |
| United States | 44 | 323.4 | 13.6 |
| Median | 2 | 9.6 | |
| Average | 5 | 12.5 | |
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Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division
