The 2014 ranking of the world 100 top universities in chemistry is headed by the United States with 42 universities, two less than in 2013, followed by China with 14, Germany with 9, and Japan with 8.
Singapore, Israel, Switzerland, Denmark and the United States occupy the top 5 places of the per capita ranking, the top three scoring multiples of the median and the average (red line).
World top 100 universities in Chemistry | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr / Million x 100) | ||
| Australia | 2 | 23.6 | 8.5 |
| Canada | 3 | 35.5 | 8.4 |
| China | 14 | 1,393.8 | 1.0 |
| Denmark | 1 | 5.6 | 17.7 |
| France | 1 | 64.6 | 1.5 |
| Germany | 9 | 82.7 | 10.9 |
| India | 1 | 1,267.4 | 0.1 |
| Israel | 2 | 7.8 | 25.6 |
| Japan | 8 | 127.0 | 6.3 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 16.8 | 11.9 |
| Saudi Arabia | 2 | 29.4 | 6.8 |
| Singapore | 2 | 5.5 | 36.3 |
| South Korea | 2 | 49.5 | 4.0 |
| Spain | 2 | 47.1 | 4.2 |
| Sweden | 1 | 9.6 | 10.4 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 8.2 | 24.5 |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 63.5 | 6.3 |
| United States | 42 | 322.6 | 13.0 |
| Total | 100 | ||
| Median | 8.5 | ||
| Average | 11.0 | ||
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Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division
