The global Jewish population is approximately 14 million or about 0.02% of the world population. Proportionally, Jews have received an amazing number of Nobel Prizes - about 20% of all Nobel Prizes given out. All up...204 in total out of around 900
As of 2023, fifteen Nobel Prize laureates have been Muslims, more than half of them in the 21st century. Of the global population, they make up ~24% with an estimated total of nearly two billion. Eight of the fifteen laureates have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, while four have been for the sciences and three for Literature. All up 15 out of about 900...about 1.5%
Literature
1910 – Paul Heyse
1927 – Henri Bergson
1958 – Boris Pasternak
1966 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 – Nelly Sachs
1976 – Saul Bellow
1978 – Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 – Elias Canetti
1987 – Joseph Brodsky
1991 – Nadine Gordimer World
2001 – Imre Kertesz
2005 – Harold Pinter
2014 – Patrick Modiano
2016 – Bob Dylan
Peace
1911 – Alfred Fried
1911 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 – Rene Cassin
1973 – Henry Kissinger
1978 – Menachem Begin
1986 – Elie Wiesel
1994 – Shimon Peres
1994 – Yitzhak Rabin
1995 – Joseph Rotblat
Chemistry
1905 – Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 – Henri Moissan
1910 – Otto Wallach
1915 – Richard Willstaetter
1918 – Fritz Haber
1943 – George Charles de Hevesy
1961 – Melvin Calvin
1962 – Max Ferdinand Perutz
1972 – William Howard Stein
1977 – Ilya Prigogine
1979 – Herbert Charles Brown
1980 – Paul Berg
1980 – Walter Gilbert
1981 – Roald Hoffmann
1982 – Aaron Klug
1985 – Albert A. Hauptman
1985 – Jerome Karle
1986 – Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 – Robert Huber
1989 – Sidney Altman
1992 – Rudolph Marcus
2000 – Alan J. Heeger
2004 – Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose
2006 – Roger Kornberg
2009 – Ada Yonath
2011 – Dan Shechtman
2012 – Robert Lefkowitz
2013 – Arieh Washel, Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus
Economics
1970 – Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 – Simon Kuznets
1972 – Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 – Leonid Kantorovich
1976 – Milton Friedman
1978 – Herbert A. Simon
1980 – Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 – Franco Modigliani
1987 – Robert M. Solow
1990 – Harry Markowitz
1990 – Merton Miller
1992 – Gary Becker
1993 – Robert Fogel
1994 – John Harsanyi
1997 – Myron Scholes
2001 – Joseph Stiglitz, George A. Akerlof
2002 – Daniel Kahneman
2005 – Robert Aumann
2007 – Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin & Roger Myerson
