Do you have to be a White, Male, and American to win a Nobel Prize?

Nobel Prizes are often criticised - and rightly so for being biased - as Nobel recipients overwhelmingly happen to be white, male, and American.

About 40% of all the Nobel prizes - 400 of the total 900 - have gone to citizens of just one country: USA

And most of them are white and male.

Fewer than three per cent of Nobel science winners are women

And only one woman of color has ever received any Nobel award. That lucky woman is Toni Morrison, who got it in Literature category.

Out of all the 972 Nobel recipients till 2021, only 58 are women

Only 8 woman in history have ever won the chemistry Nobel.

It comes down to 4 for Physics Nobel Prize, out of the total 219 recipients since 1901.

Nobel Literature Awardees: 16 women out of total 118

Nobel Peace Awardees: 17 women out of total 135
Nobel Medicine Recipients: 12 women out of the total 224

Of the 972 individuals and organizations who have earned Nobel prizes, just 16 are Black.

Technically only 5 Indian Citizens have ever got Nobel Honors

And CV Raman is the only science Nobel Laureate India has produced.

Though there are 7 more people of Indian ancestry to have received the honour, they weren't Indian citizen at the time of receiving the award.

No Black has got Science Nobel

In the 120-year history of the Nobel Prize, no Black person, regardless of gender, has ever won a prize in the Science category.

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