Nobel laureates per capita

Nobel laureates per 10 million people, counted by each laureate's *present-day birth country* (Nobel Prize API, CC0) and divided by the latest World Bank population. Descriptive — a fun proxy, not a measure of national merit. It is heavily noisy for small countries (one laureate from a tiny nation tops the ranking) and reflects historical opportunity, emigration and a century of prizes, not current conditions — so it uses a neutral colour, a log scale, and is off the Compare radar. Laureates whose birth country can't be mapped to a country in our list are excluded.