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World Researchers per million people Ranking

Compare researchers per million people by country, including the top and bottom results, Japan's position and country details.

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01 / RANKING MAP

Compare researchers per million people across the world.

Compare researchers per million people by country on a ten-level world heat map. Explore the top and bottom five, the full ranking and country details.

Japan5,608.6 per million people
Fiji: No dataTanzania: 19.3 per million peopleWestern Sahara: No dataCanada: 5,624.3 per million peopleUnited States: 4,937.5 per million peopleKazakhstan: 758 per million peopleUzbekistan: 639.5 per million peoplePapua New Guinea: 33.2 per million peopleIndonesia: 395.3 per million peopleArgentina: 1,312.8 per million peopleChile: 707.1 per million peopleCongo, Dem. Rep.: 10.1 per million peopleSomalia, Fed. Rep.: No dataKenya: 384 per million peopleSudan: No dataChad: 56.7 per million peopleHaiti: No dataDominican Republic: 20 per million peopleRussian Federation: 2,638.6 per million peopleBahamas, The: No dataFalkland Islands: No dataNorway: 7,450.6 per million peopleGreenland: No dataFr. S. Antarctic Lands: No dataTimor-Leste: No dataSouth Africa: 444.2 per million peopleLesotho: 32.2 per million peopleMexico: 438.2 per million peopleUruguay: 937.6 per million peopleBrazil: 903.2 per million peopleBolivia: 63.1 per million peoplePeru: No dataColombia: 90.2 per million peoplePanama: 250.5 per million peopleCosta Rica: 507.8 per million peopleNicaragua: No dataHonduras: 187.8 per million peopleEl Salvador: 55.5 per million peopleGuatemala: 1.4 per million peopleBelize: No dataVenezuela, RB: 180 per million peopleGuyana: No dataSuriname: No dataFrance: 5,368.6 per million peopleEcuador: 400.3 per million peoplePuerto Rico (US): 332.4 per million peopleJamaica: No dataCuba: 2,171.3 per million peopleZimbabwe: 95.1 per million peopleBotswana: 179.8 per million peopleNamibia: 224.8 per million peopleSenegal: 572.4 per million peopleMali: 26 per million peopleMauritania: No dataBenin: No dataNiger: 26.9 per million peopleNigeria: 22.1 per million peopleCameroon: No dataTogo: 57.8 per million peopleGhana: 87.5 per million peopleCote d'Ivoire: No dataGuinea: No dataGuinea-Bissau: No dataLiberia: No dataSierra Leone: No dataBurkina Faso: 46.6 per million peopleCentral African Republic: No dataCongo, Rep.: 127 per million peopleGabon: No dataEquatorial Guinea: No dataZambia: No dataMalawi: 25.2 per million peopleMozambique: 44.4 per million peopleEswatini: 137.9 per million peopleAngola: 18.9 per million peopleBurundi: 22.5 per million peopleIsrael: No dataLebanon: No dataMadagascar: 32.9 per million peopleWest Bank and Gaza: 584.4 per million peopleGambia, The: 50.9 per million peopleTunisia: 1,667.6 per million peopleAlgeria: 1,764 per million peopleJordan: 576 per million peopleUnited Arab Emirates: 2,606.8 per million peopleQatar: 947.8 per million peopleKuwait: 144.8 per million peopleIraq: 164.3 per million peopleOman: 739.4 per million peopleVanuatu: No dataCambodia: 30.4 per million peopleThailand: 1,592 per million peopleLao PDR: No dataMyanmar: 28 per million peopleViet Nam: 836.1 per million peopleKorea, Dem. People's Rep.: No dataKorea, Rep.: 9,471.8 per million peopleMongolia: 535.4 per million peopleIndia: 259.3 per million peopleBangladesh: No dataBhutan: 236.3 per million peopleNepal: No dataPakistan: 473.7 per million peopleAfghanistan: No dataTajikistan: No dataKyrgyz Republic: No dataTurkmenistan: No dataIran, Islamic Rep.: 2,239.7 per million peopleSyrian Arab Republic: 139.9 per million peopleArmenia: 942.2 per million peopleSweden: 8,910.7 per million peopleBelarus: 1,567.8 per million peopleUkraine: 586.1 per million peoplePoland: 3,675.1 per million peopleAustria: 6,633.6 per million peopleHungary: 4,567.1 per million peopleMoldova: 649.9 per million peopleRomania: 1,082.1 per million peopleLithuania: 3,703.9 per million peopleLatvia: 2,190.9 per million peopleEstonia: 4,800.4 per million peopleGermany: 5,926.1 per million peopleBulgaria: 2,400.6 per million peopleGreece: 5,283.4 per million peopleTurkiye: 2,644.7 per million peopleAlbania: 428.7 per million peopleCroatia: 2,440.3 per million peopleSwitzerland: 6,108 per million peopleLuxembourg: 5,359.1 per million peopleBelgium: 5,990.1 per million peopleNetherlands: 6,563.3 per million peoplePortugal: 5,983.3 per million peopleSpain: 3,653.8 per million peopleIreland: 5,752.8 per million peopleNew Caledonia: No dataSolomon Islands: No dataNew Zealand: 5,435.5 per million peopleAustralia: 4,568.6 per million peopleSri Lanka: 94.5 per million peopleChina: 2,107.3 per million peopleTaiwan: No dataItaly: 2,855.1 per million peopleDenmark: 8,837.5 per million peopleUnited Kingdom: 4,472.7 per million peopleIceland: 5,952.5 per million peopleAzerbaijan: 1,662.5 per million peopleGeorgia: 1,896 per million peoplePhilippines: 320.3 per million peopleMalaysia: 1,218.3 per million peopleBrunei Darussalam: 506.2 per million peopleSlovenia: 5,616.3 per million peopleFinland: 8,314.9 per million peopleSlovak Republic: 3,506.6 per million peopleCzechia: 4,504.6 per million peopleEritrea: No dataJapan: 5,608.6 per million peopleParaguay: 138.8 per million peopleYemen, Rep.: No dataSaudi Arabia: 1,234.7 per million peopleAntarctica: No dataN. Cyprus: No dataCyprus: 1,686.5 per million peopleMorocco: 1,083.4 per million peopleEgypt, Arab Rep.: 1,120.2 per million peopleLibya: No dataEthiopia: 89 per million peopleDjibouti: No dataSomaliland: No dataUganda: 81.3 per million peopleRwanda: 133.1 per million peopleBosnia and Herzegovina: 705.2 per million peopleNorth Macedonia: 888.1 per million peopleSerbia: 2,687.5 per million peopleMontenegro: 764.4 per million peopleKosovo: No dataTrinidad and Tobago: 492.7 per million peopleSouth Sudan: No data
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02 / ABOUT THIS DATA

How to read the World Researchers per million people Ranking

Compare researchers per million people by country on a ten-level world heat map. Explore the top and bottom five, the full ranking and country details. This page orders 134 countries and territories by value and divides the ranking into ten map colors.

Top 3
#1 Liechtenstein (18,129.8 per million people), #2 Korea, Rep. (9,471.8 per million people), #3 Sweden (8,910.7 per million people)
Japan’s position
World #19 (5,608.6 per million people)
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Researchers per million peopleFull ranking134 countries

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