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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Demography?

85 researchers whose main subfield is Demography are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. The United States has the most (32, 37.6%), followed by the United Kingdom (8) and the Netherlands (6). A country with 100 or more opens its institutions in the subfield; the others open their scientists in the table of all authors.

#	Country	Listed authors	Top 100k	Share of subfield	Highest-ranked author	Top institution
1	United States	32	25	37.6%	Bongaarts, John P.M. #8,618	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2	United Kingdom	8	5	9.4%	Castles, Stephen #12,574	University of Oxford
3	Netherlands	6	4	7.1%	de Haas, Hein #2,824	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
4	Austria	5	4	5.9%	Sobotka, Tomáš #17,223	Vienna Institute of Demography
5	Germany	5	2	5.9%	Xiang, Biao #22,456	Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
6	Italy	4	4	4.7%	Billari, Francesco C. #25,715	Università Bocconi
7	Australia	4	3	4.7%	Hugo, Graeme John #31,797	The Australian National University
8	China	3	1	3.5%	Zeng, Yi #10,286	Peking University
9	Norway	3	1	3.5%	Carling, Jørgen #11,545	International Peace Research Institute, Oslo
10	Canada	2	2	2.4%	Triandafyllidou, Anna #10,361	Toronto Metropolitan University
11	Belgium	2	2	2.4%	Lesthaeghe, Ron #27,721	Vrije Universiteit Brussel
12	Hong Kong	2	0	2.4%	Gietel-Basten, Stuart A. #108,885	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
13	Sweden	2	0	2.4%	Kolk, Martin #120,506	Stockholms universitet
14	Denmark	1	1	1.2%	Vaupel, James W. #12,060	Syddansk Universitet
15	New Zealand	1	1	1.2%	McLeman, Robert Andrew #36,421	University of Auckland
16	South Korea	1	1	1.2%	Piper, Nicola #45,220	Korea University
17	Switzerland	1	1	1.2%	Bernardi, Laura #95,800	Université de Lausanne (UNIL)
18	Spain	1	0	1.2%	Reher, David Sven #101,564	Universidad Complutense de Madrid
19	India	1	0	1.2%	Bhagat, Ram B. #101,588	Institute for Human Development
20	Finland	1	0	1.2%	Jalovaara, Marika #131,128	Turun yliopisto