Leading 50 countries/territories
The leading 50 countries/territories ranked by total article Share (Share) based on collaborative articles between north and south countries from 2015 to 2022. North and south countries were defined using the World Bank’s income-group classifications. See this supplement’s Guide to the Index for more information. Also listed are each country/territory's collaborative article count (Count) and proportion of north-south collaboration Share relative to total Share (North-south collaboration %) over the same period.
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1 | United States of America (USA) | North | 2,632.34 | 6,992 | 1.7% |
2 | India | South | 2,039.16 | 6,526 | 24.6% |
3 | Germany | North | 1,076.51 | 4,502 | 2.9% |
4 | United Kingdom (UK) | North | 878.71 | 4,198 | 3.0% |
5 | China | North | 755.97 | 3,417 | 0.8% |
6 | France | North | 705.05 | 3,550 | 4.0% |
7 | Japan | North | 417.41 | 1,975 | 1.7% |
8 | Italy | North | 409.18 | 2,820 | 4.7% |
9 | Iran | South | 311.92 | 1,502 | 38.7% |
10 | Switzerland | North | 305.25 | 2,416 | 2.7% |
11 | Canada | North | 277.78 | 1,658 | 2.2% |
12 | Australia | North | 239.65 | 1,915 | 2.5% |
13 | Spain | North | 235.31 | 2,403 | 2.5% |
14 | Russia | North | 214.55 | 2,356 | 5.8% |
15 | South Korea | North | 207.03 | 1,445 | 1.8% |
16 | Netherlands | North | 167.81 | 1,938 | 2.3% |
17 | Sweden | North | 166.24 | 1,524 | 3.2% |
18 | Ukraine | South | 153.61 | 1,704 | 77.9% |
19 | Belgium | North | 114.82 | 1,045 | 3.4% |
20 | Singapore | North | 105.42 | 420 | 2.2% |
21 | Taiwan | North | 101.00 | 1,440 | 3.0% |
22 | Vietnam | South | 95.69 | 649 | 67.1% |
23 | Egypt | South | 93.18 | 1,405 | 85.4% |
24 | Pakistan | South | 91.84 | 1,331 | 42.7% |
25 | South Africa | North | 86.97 | 1,046 | 13.5% |
26 | Poland | North | 86.33 | 1,958 | 4.3% |
27 | Israel | North | 82.63 | 872 | 1.7% |
28 | Brazil | North | 79.48 | 1,883 | 3.6% |
29 | Austria | North | 71.07 | 1,511 | 2.4% |
30 | Denmark | North | 70.14 | 1,031 | 2.2% |
31 | Kenya | South | 64.59 | 395 | 98.5% |
32 | Czech Republic | North | 61.24 | 1,501 | 3.8% |
33 | Turkey | North | 55.93 | 1,449 | 9.4% |
34 | Saudi Arabia | North | 51.08 | 542 | 4.8% |
35 | Finland | North | 50.68 | 994 | 3.0% |
36 | Norway | North | 42.22 | 899 | 2.8% |
37 | Bangladesh | South | 40.73 | 231 | 95.3% |
38 | Portugal | North | 40.19 | 1,180 | 3.4% |
39 | Morocco | South | 36.85 | 646 | 73.9% |
40 | Philippines | South | 33.78 | 382 | 94.4% |
41 | Lebanon | South | 29.48 | 194 | 67.0% |
42 | Mexico | North | 28.45 | 863 | 3.9% |
43 | Greece | North | 27.43 | 1,224 | 3.8% |
44 | Chile | North | 25.10 | 725 | 2.9% |
45 | Ireland | North | 24.84 | 987 | 2.6% |
46 | Uganda | South | 24.32 | 172 | 97.3% |
47 | Tunisia | South | 23.28 | 146 | 91.8% |
48 | Ethiopia | South | 21.53 | 155 | 100.0% |
49 | Romania | North | 19.98 | 1,038 | 10.5% |
50 | Hungary | North | 19.84 | 1,057 | 2.8% |