What countries have the most unicorns (i.e., billion-dollar startup companies) per capita (i.e., per person)?
Oddly, I couldn't find this anywhere, so I calculated it.
The winners:
Singapore
Israel
the United States
Estonia
Ireland
Here's the full chart I created:
Interestingly, the top of the table pretty closely follows the amount of startup investment per capita according to this chart from Crunchbase:
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