The United States dominate the discipline of mathematics, with 70 universities in the 2014 ranking of the world 100 top universities in mathematics. Canada, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands take the following positions, having pushed France and Germany out of their previous honorable places.
The score per capita shows Denmark at the top, followed by the Netherlands, Israel and Hong Kong, all with scores above the median and the average (red line).
World top 100 universities in Mathematics | |||
Country | Number | Population | Per capita |
| Million | (Nbr / Million x 100) | ||
| Australia | 2 | 23.6 | 8.5 |
| Austria | 1 | 8.5 | 11.7 |
| Belgium | 1 | 11.1 | 9.0 |
| Brazil | 1 | 202.0 | 0.5 |
| Canada | 2 | 35.5 | 5.6 |
| China | 14 | 1,393.8 | 1.0 |
| France | 7 | 64.6 | 10.8 |
| Germany | 5 | 82.7 | 6.0 |
| Israel | 3 | 7.8 | 38.4 |
| Italy | 3 | 61.1 | 4.9 |
| Japan | 2 | 127.0 | 1.6 |
| Norway | 1 | 5.1 | 19.6 |
| Portugal | 1 | 10.6 | 9.4 |
| Russia | 1 | 142.5 | 0.7 |
| Saudi Arabia | 2 | 29.4 | 6.8 |
| South Korea | 1 | 49.5 | 2.0 |
| Spain | 3 | 47.1 | 6.4 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 8.2 | 36.8 |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 63.5 | 7.9 |
| United States | 42 | 322.6 | 13.0 |
| Total | 100 | ||
| Median | 7.3 | ||
| Average | 10.0 | ||
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Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai and UN Population Division
