Ranking of countries with the most Nobel Prizes

Since the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901 until this year's 2018 edition, whose winners have recently been announced, a total of 935 people and institutions have been honored in the various Nobel categories: Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature (not awarded this year), Peace, and Economics.

The United States is, by far, the country with the most Nobel Prizes, with a total of 377 laureates, followed at a great distance by the United Kingdom, second in the ranking with a total of 130 awardees.

Germany (108), France (69), and Sweden (32) complete the top five positions in the ranking of countries with the most Nobel laureates.

Spain, with eight Nobel Prizes, ranks 22nd, tied with China and Ireland.

Six of the eight Nobel laureates of Spanish nationality have won the Nobel Prize in Literature: José Echegaray (1904), Jacinto Benavente (1922), Juan Ramón Jiménez (1956), Vicente Aleixandre (1977), Camilo José Cela (1989), and the Peruvian writer – and also with Spanish nationality since 1993 – Mario Vargas Llosa. The other two received the Nobel Prize in Medicine: Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1906) and Severo Ochoa (1959).

Throughout the history of these awards, only on 52 occasions have the Nobel laureates been women. The Nobel Peace Prize is the one that has taken women most into account, with 17 recipients, followed by the Nobel Prize in Literature, which has honored 14 female writers.

The following table shows some data about the different categories of the Nobel Prizes, such as the times they have been awarded, the number of laureates, or how many women have won it.