Samoa vs Sri Lanka: Annual articles published in scientific and technical journals per million people

Samoa

100.85 articles per million people

in 2023

Sri Lanka

105.36 articles per million people

in 2023

Samoa rank

106th

Sri Lanka rank

105th

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

Samoa
Sri Lanka

How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 105.36 articles per million people against 100.85 articles per million people in Samoa, a difference of 4.51 articles per million people.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 28 shared years of data; in 1996 it was Samoa ahead.

Samoa ranks 106th and Sri Lanka ranks 105th 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.