North America and Europe dominate the discipline of mathematics, with respectively 56 and 31 universities in the top 100 list. The rest of the world can only place 13 institutions. the United States take 54 slots, and are followed by France with 7, Germany 6, the United Kingdom 5 and Hong Kong 3.
The score per capita shows the small countries overtaking the giant United States. Israel comes first, closely followed by Hong Kong and Switzerland (scores of 40.1, 39.7 and 39.4 respectively). They are almost 5 times higher than the median, and 3 times the average (red line).
World top 100 universities in Mathematics | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr/Millionx100) | ||
| Australia | 1 | 21.8 | 4.6 |
| Austria | 1 | 8.5 | 11.8 |
| Belgium | 1 | 10.6 | 9.5 |
| Canada | 2 | 34.3 | 5.8 |
| China, Hong Kong | 3 | 7.6 | 39.7 |
| Denmark | 2 | 5.5 | 36.4 |
| France | 7 | 63.0 | 11.1 |
| Germany | 6 | 82.2 | 7.3 |
| Israel | 3 | 7.5 | 40.1 |
| Italy | 2 | 59.1 | 3.4 |
| Japan | 3 | 127.4 | 2.4 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 16.6 | 6.0 |
| Russia | 1 | 138.8 | 0.7 |
| Saudi Arabia | 3 | 27.6 | 10.9 |
| Spain | 2 | 45.5 | 4.4 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 7.6 | 39.4 |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 62.0 | 8.1 |
| United States | 54 | 320.5 | 16.8 |
| Median | 2.5 | 8.8 | |
| Average | 5.6 | 14.4 | |
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Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division
