The table compares five countries, namely the USA, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, in terms of how many of their universities ranked top 200 in the world in three disciplines: biology, medicine, and psychology, in 2011.
What is most striking is that the USA took the lead in all the subjects surveyed. In stark contrast, New Zealand was far outdone by the four other nations in each field.
Looking first at the USA and New Zealand, they took first and last place, respectively, in the chart. In the USA, there were 69 universities in the top 200 globally in the field of biology, which were almost twelve times as many as those in New Zealand (6 universities). Similarly, as for medicine and psychology, the USA recorded an almost identical figure (54 and 58); meanwhile, fewer than 5 New Zealand universities broke into the top 200.
Turning to Australia and Canada, these two countries registered almost similar figures for each discipline. They both had 9 schools ranked among top 200 universities in biology. Meanwhile, there is also little difference between their figures for medicine and psychology (13 versus 12, 17 versus 14).
Moving finally to the United Kingdom, this nation was only second to the USA in all disciplines. Its figures were generally even, around 30 (biology: 30, medicine: 24, psychology: 29).