Nigeria vs Tonga: Annual articles published in scientific and technical journals per million people

Nigeria

43 articles per million people

in 2023

Tonga

46.37 articles per million people

in 2023

Nigeria rank

124th

Tonga rank

121st

Annual articles published in scientific and technical journals per million people over time

Nigeria
Tonga

How they compare

Tonga currently reports 46.37 articles per million people against 43 articles per million people in Nigeria, a difference of 3.37 articles per million people.

That makes Tonga's figure about 1.1 times Nigeria's.

The two have swapped places 13 times across 28 shared years of data; in 1996 it was Nigeria ahead.

Nigeria ranks 124th and Tonga ranks 121st of 196 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Annual articles published in scientific and technical journals per million people
Unit: articles per million people
Source: National Science Foundation Science and Engineering Indicators, via World Bank (2026); United Nations Population Division, national statistical offices, and Eurostat, via World Bank (2026) – processed
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 196 places, 5,488 data points, 1996–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Scientific and technical journal articles per million people. Disciplines include physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, clinical medicine, biomedical research, engineering and technology, and earth and space sciences.