10 Countries With Most Scientists per Capita in the World

2. Sweden

Scientists per 1000 employed: 16.55 

Sweden is renowned as one of the leading countries in terms of scientific research and innovation. Sweden has produced numerous renowned scientists and inventors including Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786), a chemist who discovered several elements, including oxygen, chlorine, and barium, and made significant contributions to the field of analytical chemistry and Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927), who is a Nobel Prize-winning chemist who formulated the greenhouse effect theory and made significant contributions to the understanding of ionic theory and electrolytic dissociation.