Unicorns Per Capita 2022

Jesse Tinell
2 min readJul 13, 2022

Below is a list of countries with amount of unicorns per million capita. The data is compiled from Wikipedia (not the best source but hey).

[Last updated July 2022]

1. Israel = 3.67 (35 unicorns)
2. Singapore = 1.65 (9 unicorns)
3. Luxembourg = 1.55 (1 unicorn)
4. Estonia = 1.50 (2 unicorns)
5. Hong Kong = 1.22 (9 unicorns)
6. Ireland = 0.78 (4 unicorns)
7. United States = 0.77 (257 unicorns)
8. Sweden = 0.76 (8 unicorns)
9. Lithuania = 0.72 (2 unicorns)
10. Switzerland = 0.57 (5 unicorns)
11. Latvia = 0.53 (1 unicorn)
12. Canada = 0.52 (20 unicorns)
13. United Kingdom = 0.46 (31 unicorns)
14. Norway = 0.37 (2 unicorns)
15. Denmark = 0.34 (2 unicorns)
16. Armenia = 0.34 (1 unicorn)
17. United Arab Emirates = 0.32 (3 unicorns)
18. France = 0.32 (22 unicorns)
19. South Korea = 0.29 (15 unicorns)
20. Portugal = 0.29 (3 unicorns)
21. Belgium = 0.26 (3 unicorns)
22. Croatia = 0.26 (1 unicorn)
23. Australia = 0.23 (6 unicorns)
24. Germany = 0.22 (18 unicorns)
25. Austria = 0.22 (2 unicorns)
26. Finland = 0.18 (1 unicorn)
27. Netherlands = 0.17 (3 unicorns)
28. Bulgaria = 0.15 (1 unicorn)
29. Czech Republic = 0.10 (1 unicorn)
30. China = 0.06 (87 unicorns)
31. Japan = 0.06 (8 unicorns)
32. Argentina = 0.06 (3 unicorns)
33. Senegal = 0.06 (1 unicorn)
34. Spain = 0.06 (3 unicorns)
35. India = 0.05 (72 unicorns)
36. Mexico = 0.05 (7 unicorns)
37. Brazil = 0.05 (11 unicorns)
38. Chile = 0.05 (1 unicorn)
39. Turkey = 0.04 (3 unicorns)
40. Thailand = 0.04 (3 unicorns)
41. Indonesia = 0.03 (7 unicorns)
42. Philippines = 0.03 (3 unicorns)
43. Malaysia = 0.03 (1 unicorn)
44. Ukraine = 0.02 (1 unicorn)
45. Colombia = 0.02 (1 unicorn)
46. Vietnam = 0.01 (1 unicorn)
47. Bangladesh = 0.01 (1 unicorn)
48. Nigeria = 0.01 (3 unicorns)

Sources:
Unicorns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unicorn_startup_companies
Population: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population

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