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

Nigeria

43 articles per million people

in 2023

Tuvalu

42.79 articles per million people

in 2023

Nigeria rank

124th

Tuvalu rank

125th

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

Nigeria
Tuvalu

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 43 articles per million people against 42.79 articles per million people in Tuvalu, a difference of 0.2146 articles per million people.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 28 shared years of data; in 1996 it was Nigeria ahead.

Nigeria ranks 124th and Tuvalu ranks 125th 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.