What are the most irrelevant countries in the world?

[sean]

[Roy]

You did forget to colour Nauru! But it would be too small to even notice if you did.

[Nurzat]

since we are in 2022, the best way to objectively measure it is to look at scientific articles produced over one year.

let's exclude "dwarf nations", for obvious reasons.

so, most irrelevant countries in Europe, for scientific output, are:

1. Moldova
2. Albania
3. Belarus
4. Armenia
5. Ukraine
6. Georgia
7. North Macedonia
8. Turkey
9. Romania
10. Bulgaria