Nobel Prize

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Is there any connection between Nobel Prize winners and the countries they are from? For instance, you would expect that they are from developed nations largely and that they have a profound and dramatic impact on the nation as well.

So a young innocent asked the other day how come the United States of America (USA) is in shambles. Why are there so many economic and other problems when they have so many Nobel Prize winners from the USA. I went and checked. The economics Nobel Prize was instituted in 1969 and since then they have awarded the prize to around 70 intellectuals.  http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/

At the following wiki site there is a list of winners by country - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_country

I counted around 40 winners from the USA.

40 Nobel Prize winners out of 70 come from America. The American economy is in shambles. Should we be happy that there is only one Indian who has won the Nobel Prize, namely Amartya Sen?