Rankings by Country
Prizes credited to the countries where laureates worked or were born.
Data as of
101 countries · 2,410 laureates · 34 prizes · Nobel Prize API, Wikidata
Countries by prize score
Score is prize points: Tier 1 prizes weigh 10 a year, shared among that year's winners.
How this is measured
A country with constituent nations (the United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, China) also counts their laureates, and is marked “incl. constituent nations”. Each constituent, such as England or Hong Kong, also has a row of its own, so those laureates appear twice on the board.
Credited to where the laureate worked when the prize was awarded. 35 countries have a score on this board.
Show all 35 countries
Where these numbers come from11 Oct 2026
Prize winners come from the Nobel Prize API (nobelprize.org) and Wikidata. Each winner is placed on the site’s metros by where they worked when the prize was awarded, and by where they were born.
Every prize-year carries a tier weight: Tier 1 (Nobel, Fields, Abel, Turing) 10, Tier 2 (Pritzker, Wolf, Breakthrough, Kyoto, Lasker, Crafoord) 5, Tier 3 (Booker, Pulitzer, Hugo, Praemium Imperiale) 2. The weight is divided equally among that prize-year’s winners, so a shared prize splits its points.
Organisations count for their headquarters. A winner whose place could not be resolved appears in the laureates list but on no board. Affiliation is harder to find than birthplace, so the worked-at boards understate places whose laureates are not yet resolved.