Facts on the Nobel Peace Prize
On 27
November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the
largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes, the Nobel Prizes. As
described in Nobel's will, one part was dedicated to "the person who shall
have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the
abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of
peace congresses". Learn more about the Nobel Peace Prize from 1901 to
2014.
Number of Nobel Peace Prizes: 95 Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded since 1901. It was not awarded on
19 occasions: in 1914-1916, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1939-1943, 1948,
1955-1956, 1966-1967 and 1972.
Number of Shared and Unshared Nobel Peace Prizes:
64 Peace Prizes
have been given to one Laureate only.
29 Peace
Prizes have been shared by two Laureates.
2 Peace
Prizes has been shared between three persons. The 1994 Nobel Peace Prize to
Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, and the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman.
Number of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates: The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to 128 Laureates -
to 103 individuals and 25 organizations. Since Comité International de la Croix
Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) was awarded three times and
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was awarded twice
there are 103 individuals and 22 organizations that have been awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize.
Average Age: The average
age of all Nobel Peace Laureates between 1901 and 2014 is 61 years.
Youngest Peace Laureate: To date, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate is Malala Yousafzai, 17
years old when awarded the 2014 Peace Prize.
Oldest Peace Laureate: The oldest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate to date is Joseph Rotblat, who was 87
years old when he was awarded the Prize in 1995.
Female Nobel Peace Prize Laureates: Of the 103 individuals awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 16
are women. The first time a Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a woman was in
1905, to Bertha von Suttner.
1905 -
Bertha von Suttner
1931 - Jane
Addams
1946 - Emily
Greene Balch
1976 - Betty
Williams
1976 -
Mairead Corrigan
1979 -
Mother Teresa
1982 - Alva
Myrdal
1991 - Aung
San Suu Kyi
1992 -
Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1997 - Jody
Williams
2003 -
Shirin Ebadi
2004 -
Wangari Maathai
2011 - Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf
2011 -
Leymah Gbowee
2011 -
Tawakkol Karman
2014 - Malala Yousafzai
Multiple Nobel Peace Prize Laureates:
The work of
the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been honored the most -
three times - by a Nobel Peace Prize. In addition, the founder of the ICRC,
Henry Dunant, was awarded the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.
Three Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Have Been under Arrest
at the Time of the Award:
German
pacifist and journalist Carl von Ossietzky
Burmese
politician Aung San Suu Kyi
Chinese
human rights activist Liu Xiaobo
Nobel Peace Prizes and Nominations in 100 Years: The 109 awarded individuals and organizations over the
first one hundred years of the Nobel Peace Prize (1901-2001), and the 4857
nominees, can be distributed geographically and by organization as shown below:
How Many Times Can someone be nominated?
Jane Addams was nominated 91 times between 1916 and 1931, when she was
finally awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. By contrast Emily Green Balch, Fridtjof
Nansen and Theodore Roosevelt received the Nobel Peace Prize the first year
that they were nominated.
Nobel Prize Awarded Organizations: The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 25 times to
organizations between 1901 and 2014. 22 individual organizations have been awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize.
1.
Comité
international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) 1917
2.
Office
international Nansen pour les Réfugiés (Nansen International Office for
Refugees) 1938
3.
Comité
international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) 1944
4.
American Friends
Service Committee (The Quakers) 1947
5.
Friends Service Council
(The Quakers) 1947
6.
Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 1954
7.
Ligue des Sociétés
de la Croix-Rouge (League of Red Cross Societies) 1963
8.
Comité
international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) 1963
9.
United Nations
Children's Fund (UNICEF) 1965
10.
International
Labour Organization (I.L.O.) 1969
11.
Amnesty
International 1977
12.
Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 1981
13.
International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War 1985
14.
United Nations
Peacekeeping Forces 1988
15.
Pugwash Conferences
on Science and World Affairs 1995
16.
International
Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) 1997
17.
Médecins Sans
Frontières 1999
18.
United Nations
(U.N.) 2001
19.
International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 2005
20.
Grameen Bank 2006
21.
Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007
22.
European Union (EU)
2012
23.
Organisation for
the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) 2013
All Nobel Peace Prizes: The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 95 times to 128 Nobel Laureates
between 1901 and 2014, 103 individuals and 25 organizations. Since the
International Committee of the Red Cross has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
three times (in 1917, 1944 and 1963), and the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize two times (in
1954 and 1981), there are 22 individual organizations which have been awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize. Click on the links to get more information.
