Nobel Prize Winners in Peace - Statistics

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Answer Stats
Year Nationality Reason for Award Answer % Correct
2009 American "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" Barack H. Obama
83%
South African Nelson Mandela
76%
2012 N/A "for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe" European Union
69%
2001 N/A "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world" United Nations (UN)
69%
2002 American "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development" Jimmy Carter
62%
Ghanaian Kofi Annan
62%
1989 Tibetan No reason given. The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
62%
American Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
59%
1993 South African "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa" Frederik Willem de Klerk
59%
Pakistani Malala Yousafzai
59%
1990 Soviet/Russian "for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community" Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
59%
1983 Polish No reason given. Lech Walesa
55%
1906 American No reason given. Theodore Roosevelt
55%
Israeli Yitzhak Rabin
55%
1964 American No reason given. Martin Luther King Jr.
52%
1994 Palestinian "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" Yasser Arafat
52%
1917 | 1944 | 1963 N/A No reason given. Comité International de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)
48%
1973 American No reason given. Henry A. Kissinger
48%
N/A No reason given. Ligue des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge (League of Red Cross Societies)
48%
1978 Egyptian No reason given. Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat
48%
1977 N/A No reason given. Amnesty International
45%
1901 Swiss No reason given. Jean Henry Dunant
45%
1979 Several, Albanian at death. No reason given. Mother Teresa
45%
Israeli Shimon Peres
45%
1919 American No reason given. Thomas Woodrow Wilson
45%
1971 West German No reason given. Willy Brandt
45%
1984 South African No reason given. Desmond Mpilo Tutu
41%
Israeli No reason given. Menachem Begin
41%
1991 Myanmarese/Burmese "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights" Aung San Suu Kyi
34%
1953 American No reason given. George Catlett Marshall
34%
1965 N/A No reason given. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
34%
1952 French, German No reason given. Albert Schweitzer
31%
1999 N/A "in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents" Médecins Sans Frontières
31%
1905 Austro-Hungarian No reason given. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau
28%
1976 British No reason given. Betty Williams
28%
2011 Liberian "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work" Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
28%
American Jody Williams
28%
1957 Canadian No reason given. Lester Bowles Pearson
28%
1975 Soviet No reason given. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
24%
1926 French No reason given. Aristide Briand
24%
1935 German No reason given. Carl von Ossietzky
24%
1961 Swedish No reason given. Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold
24%
1922 Norwegian No reason given. Fridtjof Nansen
24%
German No reason given. Gustav Stresemann
24%
1998 Irish, British "for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland" John Hume
24%
North Vietnamese No reason given. Le Duc Tho
24%
1962 American No reason given. Linus Carl Pauling
24%
British No reason given. Mairead Corrigan
24%
1938 N/A No reason given. Office International Nansen Pour les Réfugiés (Nansen International Office for Refugees)
24%
British David Trimble
21%
Bangladeshi Muhammad Yunus
21%
French No reason given. Frédéric Passy
17%
N/A International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
17%
1969 N/A No reason given. International Labour Organization (ILO)
17%
2016 Colombian "for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end" Juan Manuel Santos
17%
2008 Finnish "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts" Martti Ahtisaari
17%
1954 | 1981 N/A No reason given. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
17%
1992 Guatemalan "in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples" Rigoberta Menchu Tum
17%
1974 Irish No reason given. Sean MacBride
17%
2003 Iranian "for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children" Shirin Ebadi
17%
1960 South African No reason given. Albert Lutuli
14%
Mexican No reason given. Alfonso Garcia Robles
14%
1982 Swedish No reason given. Alva Myrdal
14%
1986 American No reason given. Elie Wiesel
14%
American No reason given. John Raleigh Mott
14%
1995 British, Polish "for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms" Joseph Rotblat
14%
2010 Chinese "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China" Liu Xiaobo
14%
2005 Egyptian "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way" Mohamed ElBaradei
14%
1925 British No reason given. Sir Austen Chamberlain
14%
2004 Kenyan "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace" Wangari Muta Maathai
14%
East Timorese Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
10%
1929 American No reason given. Frank Billings Kellogg
10%
2006 Bangladeshi "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below" Grameen Bank
10%
2007 N/A "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change" Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
10%
1997 N/A "for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines" International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)
10%
1996 East Timorese "for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor" José Ramos-Horta
10%
2014 Indian "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education" Kailash Satyarthi
10%
Liberian Leymah Gbowee
10%
2015 Tunisian "for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011" National Dialogue Quartet
10%
1970 American No reason given. Norman E. Borlaug
10%
1987 Costa Rican "for his work for peace in Central America, efforts which led to the accord signed in Guatemala on August 7 this year" Oscar Arias Sanchez
10%
N/A Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
10%
Yemeni Tawakkol Karman
10%
1980 Argentinian No reason given. Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
7%
N/A American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers)
7%
1936 Argentinian No reason given. Carlos Saavedra Lamas
7%
American No reason given. Charles Gates Dawes
7%
Japanese No reason given. Eisaku Sato
7%
1947 N/A No reason given. Friends Service Council (The Quakers)
7%
1985 N/A No reason given. International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
7%
2000 South Korean "for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular" Kim Dae-Jung
7%
2013 N/A "for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons" Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
7%
1950 American No reason given. Ralph Bunche
7%
1910 N/A No reason given. Bureau International Permanent de la Paix (Permanent International Peace Bureau)
3%
1937 British No reason given. Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (Lord Elgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil)
3%
1945 American No reason given. Cordell Hull
3%
1902 Swiss No reason given. Élie Ducommun
3%
1912 American No reason given. Elihu Root
3%
1946 American No reason given. Emily Greene Balch
3%
1907 Italian No reason given. Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
3%
1958 Belgian No reason given. Georges Pire
3%
1904 N/A No reason given. Institut de Droit International (Institute of International Law)
3%
1931 American No reason given. Jane Addams
3%
1951 French No reason given. Léon Jouhaux
3%
1920 French No reason given. Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
3%
1949 British No reason given. Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin
3%
German No reason given. Ludwig Quidde
3%
American No reason given. Nicholas Murray Butler
3%
1959 British No reason given. Philip J. Noel-Baker
3%
1968 French No reason given. René Cassin
3%
1911 Dutch No reason given. Tobias Michel Karel Asser
3%
1988 N/A No reason given. United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
3%
1903 British No reason given. William Randal Cremer
3%
Austro-Hungarian No reason given. Alfred Hermann Fried
0%
1934 British No reason given. Arthur Henderson
0%
1909 Belgian No reason given. Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert
0%
Swiss No reason given. Charles Albert Gobat
0%
1927 French No reason given. Ferdinand Buisson
0%
Danish No reason given. Fredrik Bajer
0%
1913 Belgian No reason given. Henri La Fontaine
0%
1921 Swedish No reason given. Karl Hjalmar Branting
0%
1908 Swedish No reason given. Klas Pontus Arnoldson
0%
1930 Swedish No reason given. Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Soderblom
0%
French No reason given. Louis Renault
0%
French No reason given. Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque
0%
1933 British No reason given. Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)
0%
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