Scientific journal articles published
count · showing the worst first
197 of 216 countries report a figure for scientific journal articles published
World average: 16,443
| Rank | Country | Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #197 | Nauru | 0 | 2023 | |
| #196 | Tuvalu | 0 | 2023 | |
| #195 | Marshall Islands | 1 | 2023 | |
| #194 | Kiribati | 2 | 2023 | |
| #193 | Saint Lucia | 3 | 2023 | |
| #192 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 3 | 2023 | |
| #191 | Equatorial Guinea | 3 | 2023 | |
| #190 | Dominica | 4 | 2023 | |
| #189 | Federated States of Micronesia | 4 | 2023 | |
| #188 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 5 | 2023 | |
| #187 | Tonga | 5 | 2023 | |
| #186 | Palau | 5 | 2023 | |
| #185 | Comoros | 8 | 2023 | |
| #184 | Andorra | 11 | 2023 | |
| #183 | Vanuatu | 12 | 2023 | |
| #182 | Antigua and Barbuda | 13 | 2023 | |
| #181 | Guinea-Bissau | 14 | 2023 | |
| #180 | Solomon Islands | 15 | 2023 | |
| #179 | The Bahamas | 15 | 2023 | |
| #178 | Seychelles | 15 | 2023 | |
| #177 | South Sudan | 17 | 2023 | |
| #176 | Djibouti | 17 | 2023 | |
| #175 | Belize | 18 | 2023 | |
| #174 | Cape Verde | 18 | 2023 | |
| #173 | San Marino | 20 | 2023 | |
| #172 | Timor-Leste | 21 | 2023 | |
| #171 | Samoa | 22 | 2023 | |
| #170 | Central African Republic | 26 | 2023 | |
| #169 | Suriname | 26 | 2023 | |
| #168 | Eritrea | 29 | 2023 | |
| #167 | Eswatini | 31 | 2023 | |
| #166 | Turkmenistan | 31 | 2023 | |
| #165 | Liberia | 32 | 2023 | |
| #164 | Maldives | 32 | 2023 | |
| #163 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 36 | 2023 | |
| #162 | Burundi | 36 | 2023 | |
| #161 | Monaco | 37 | 2023 | |
| #160 | Haiti | 38 | 2023 | |
| #159 | Greenland | 38 | 2023 | |
| #158 | Nicaragua | 41 | 2023 | |
| #157 | Grenada | 42 | 2023 | |
| #156 | Mauritania | 47 | 2023 | |
| #155 | Guyana | 50 | 2023 | |
| #154 | Angola | 50 | 2023 | |
| #153 | Liechtenstein | 51 | 2023 | |
| #152 | Chad | 52 | 2023 | |
| #151 | Guinea | 55 | 2023 | |
| #150 | Barbados | 57 | 2023 | |
| #149 | Lesotho | 60 | 2023 | |
| #148 | El Salvador | 65 | 2023 | |
| #147 | Papua New Guinea | 70 | 2023 | |
| #146 | Laos | 72 | 2023 | |
| #145 | The Gambia | 80 | 2023 | |
| #144 | Sierra Leone | 86 | 2023 | |
| #143 | Niger | 90 | 2023 | |
| #142 | Gabon | 91 | 2023 | |
| #141 | Republic of the Congo | 96 | 2023 | |
| #140 | Bhutan | 103 | 2023 | |
| #139 | Dominican Republic | 105 | 2023 | |
| #138 | Guatemala | 109 | 2023 | |
| #137 | Mali | 117 | 2023 | |
| #136 | Honduras | 130 | 2023 | |
| #135 | Togo | 136 | 2023 | |
| #134 | Somalia | 152 | 2023 | |
| #133 | Madagascar | 153 | 2023 | |
| #132 | Tajikistan | 158 | 2023 | |
| #131 | Jamaica | 161 | 2023 | |
| #130 | Afghanistan | 169 | 2023 | |
| #129 | Bolivia | 197 | 2023 | |
| #128 | Cambodia | 201 | 2023 | |
| #127 | Mozambique | 205 | 2023 | |
| #126 | Mauritius | 205 | 2023 | |
| #125 | Fiji | 218 | 2023 | |
| #124 | Namibia | 231 | 2023 | |
| #123 | Myanmar | 234 | 2023 | |
| #122 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 243 | 2023 | |
| #121 | Trinidad and Tobago | 246 | 2023 | |
| #120 | Paraguay | 253 | 2023 | |
| #119 | Montenegro | 255 | 2023 | |
| #118 | North Korea | 269 | 2023 | |
| #117 | Mongolia | 277 | 2023 | |
| #116 | Panama | 282 | 2023 | |
| #115 | Albania | 319 | 2023 | |
| #114 | Kyrgyzstan | 327 | 2023 | |
| #113 | Moldova | 335 | 2023 | |
| #112 | Zambia | 367 | 2023 | |
| #111 | Malawi | 378 | 2023 | |
| #110 | Botswana | 384 | 2023 | |
| #109 | Ivory Coast | 392 | 2023 | |
| #108 | Yemen | 404 | 2023 | |
| #107 | Rwanda | 434 | 2023 | |
| #106 | Benin | 437 | 2023 | |
| #105 | Libya | 443 | 2023 | |
| #104 | Sudan | 471 | 2023 | |
| #103 | Venezuela | 475 | 2023 | |
| #102 | Senegal | 490 | 2023 | |
| #101 | Kosovo | 495 | 2023 | |
| #100 | Malta | 498 | 2023 | |
| #99 | North Macedonia | 499 | 2023 | |
| #98 | Brunei | 502 | 2023 | |
| #97 | Burkina Faso | 520 | 2023 | |
| #96 | Zimbabwe | 520 | 2023 | |
| #95 | Puerto Rico | 605 | 2023 | |
| #94 | Syria | 646 | 2023 | |
| #93 | Georgia | 650 | 2023 | |
| #92 | Costa Rica | 661 | 2023 | |
| #91 | Iceland | 716 | 2023 | |
| #90 | Bahrain | 718 | 2023 | |
| #89 | Armenia | 801 | 2023 | |
| #88 | Palestine | 862 | 2023 | |
| #87 | Uruguay | 1,060 | 2023 | |
| #86 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1,083 | 2023 | |
| #85 | Luxembourg | 1,176 | 2023 | |
| #84 | Cuba | 1,217 | 2023 | |
| #83 | Kuwait | 1,395 | 2023 | |
| #82 | Uganda | 1,424 | 2023 | |
| #81 | Belarus | 1,429 | 2023 | |
| #80 | Tanzania | 1,453 | 2023 | |
| #79 | Azerbaijan | 1,544 | 2023 | |
| #78 | Cameroon | 1,547 | 2023 | |
| #77 | Nepal | 1,591 | 2023 | |
| #76 | Oman | 1,640 | 2023 | |
| #75 | Latvia | 1,736 | 2023 | |
| #74 | Estonia | 1,754 | 2023 | |
| #73 | Cyprus | 1,764 | 2023 | |
| #72 | Kenya | 2,079 | 2023 | |
| #71 | Lebanon | 2,079 | 2023 | |
| #70 | Sri Lanka | 2,322 | 2023 | |
| #69 | Qatar | 2,471 | 2023 | |
| #68 | Lithuania | 2,673 | 2023 | |
| #67 | Ghana | 3,270 | 2023 | |
| #66 | Ecuador | 3,530 | 2023 | |
| #65 | Slovenia | 3,568 | 2023 | |
| #64 | Kazakhstan | 3,819 | 2023 | |
| #63 | Uzbekistan | 4,624 | 2023 | |
| #62 | Philippines | 4,752 | 2023 | |
| #61 | Bulgaria | 4,998 | 2023 | |
| #60 | Serbia | 5,173 | 2023 | |
| #59 | Peru | 5,242 | 2023 | |
| #58 | Slovakia | 5,332 | 2023 | |
| #57 | Jordan | 5,419 | 2023 | |
| #56 | Tunisia | 5,493 | 2023 | |
| #55 | Croatia | 5,504 | 2023 | |
| #54 | Ethiopia | 6,728 | 2023 | |
| #53 | United Arab Emirates | 7,075 | 2023 | |
| #52 | Algeria | 7,677 | 2023 | |
| #51 | New Zealand | 8,096 | 2023 | |
| #50 | Bangladesh | 8,259 | 2023 | |
| #49 | Hungary | 8,260 | 2023 | |
| #48 | Chile | 8,573 | 2023 | |
| #47 | Argentina | 8,589 | 2023 | |
| #46 | Ireland | 8,720 | 2023 | |
| #45 | Colombia | 9,184 | 2023 | |
| #44 | Morocco | 9,725 | 2023 | |
| #43 | Nigeria | 9,799 | 2023 | |
| #42 | Vietnam | 10,644 | 2023 | |
| #41 | Romania | 10,713 | 2023 | |
| #40 | Finland | 11,224 | 2023 | |
| #39 | Singapore | 11,894 | 2023 | |
| #38 | Czech Republic | 13,409 | 2023 | |
| #37 | Greece | 13,552 | 2023 | |
| #36 | Norway | 13,756 | 2023 | |
| #35 | Israel | 13,844 | 2023 | |
| #34 | Austria | 13,846 | 2023 | |
| #33 | South Africa | 14,949 | 2023 | |
| #32 | Ukraine | 15,498 | 2023 | |
| #31 | Denmark | 15,603 | 2023 | |
| #30 | Thailand | 16,656 | 2023 | |
| #29 | Iraq | 16,724 | 2023 | |
| #28 | Belgium | 16,816 | 2023 | |
| #27 | Portugal | 18,225 | 2023 | |
| #26 | Mexico | 18,982 | 2023 | |
| #25 | Pakistan | 20,519 | 2023 | |
| #24 | Sweden | 21,244 | 2023 | |
| #23 | Switzerland | 22,804 | 2023 | |
| #22 | Egypt | 22,854 | 2023 | |
| #21 | Malaysia | 23,691 | 2023 | |
| #20 | Saudi Arabia | 24,595 | 2023 | |
| #19 | Poland | 31,218 | 2023 | |
| #18 | Kingdom of the Netherlands | 32,207 | 2023 | |
| #17 | Indonesia | 38,992 | 2023 | |
| #16 | Turkey | 50,180 | 2023 | |
| #15 | Australia | 54,589 | 2023 | |
| #14 | Iran | 55,085 | 2023 | |
| #13 | Brazil | 58,292 | 2023 | |
| #12 | Spain | 60,304 | 2023 | |
| #11 | France | 62,180 | 2023 | |
| #10 | Canada | 63,720 | 2023 | |
| #9 | South Korea | 71,724 | 2023 | |
| #8 | Italy | 82,771 | 2023 | |
| #7 | Russia | 85,558 | 2023 | |
| #6 | Japan | 96,543 | 2023 | |
| #5 | United Kingdom | 97,536 | 2023 | |
| #4 | Germany | 108,782 | 2023 | |
| #3 | India | 228,174 | 2023 | |
| #2 | United States | 430,843 | 2023 | |
| #1 | People's Republic of China | 932,712 | 2023 | |
| — | American Samoa | — | — | |
| — | Aruba | — | — | |
| — | Bermuda | — | — | |
| — | British Virgin Islands | — | — | |
| — | Cayman Islands | — | — | |
| — | Curaçao | — | — | |
| — | Faroe Islands | — | — | |
| — | French Polynesia | — | — | |
| — | Gibraltar | — | — | |
| — | Guam | — | — | |
| — | Hong Kong | — | — | |
| — | Isle of Man | — | — | |
| — | Macau | — | — | |
| — | New Caledonia | — | — | |
| — | Northern Mariana Islands | — | — | |
| — | Sint Maarten | — | — | |
| — | Saint-Martin | — | — | |
| — | Turks and Caicos Islands | — | — | |
| — | United States Virgin Islands | — | — |
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0)