Medals per Million

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Medals per Million

Update: as for 16 August 2016, Data from BBC, rio2016.com and Wikipedia:

17 August Medals metrics by GDP

Rank

Country

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

Popula–tion (M)

Medals per Million

Golds per Million

Medals per GDP $m

61 GRN

0

1

0

1

0.1

9.71

0.00

1000.00

36 ARM

1

3

0

4

3.0

1.34

0.33

371.26

40 GEO

1

1

3

5

3.7

1.34

0.27

358.63

19 JAM

3

0

2

5

2.7

1.84

1.10

355.69

48 FIJ

1

0

0

1

0.9

1.15

1.15

201.45

59 MGL

0

1

1

2

3.1

0.65

0.00

171.64

69 KGZ

0

0

1

1

6.0

0.17

0.00

165.84

69 MDA

0

0

1

1

3.6

0.28

0.00

164.37

22 CUB

2

2

4

8

11.2

0.71

0.18

160.23

48 KOS

1

0

0

1

1.8

0.54

0.54

154.54

54 AZE

0

2

3

5

9.8

0.51

0.00

142.28

48 BAH

1

0

0

1

0.4

2.65

2.65

112.15

12 HUN

6

3

4

13

9.8

1.32

0.61

110.42

37 BLR

1

2

2

5

9.5

0.53

0.11

108.96

18 CRO

3

2

0

5

4.2

1.19

0.72

100.14

30 UZB

2

0

4

6

31.6

0.19

0.06

97.33

16 KEN

3

3

0

6

44.2

0.14

0.07

92.75

38 SLO

1

2

1

4

2.1

1.94

0.48

91.34

20 KAZ

2

3

5

10

17.8

0.56

0.11

86.09

33 UKR

1

4

2

7

42.7

0.16

0.02

83.78

40 ETH

1

1

3

5

92.2

0.05

0.01

74.15

58 LTU

0

1

2

3

2.9

1.05

0.00

69.73

48 SER

1

0

0

1

14.8

0.07

0.07

68.62

43 BHR

1

1

0

2

1.4

1.42

0.71

66.49

14 NZ

3

6

1

10

4.7

2.12

0.64

58.85

69 EST

0

0

1

1

1.3

0.76

0.00

41.93

39 CZE

1

1

5

7

10.6

0.66

0.09

37.78

4 RUS

12

12

14

38

146.6

0.26

0.08

33.55

35 DEN

1

3

5

9

5.7

1.57

0.17

29.82

32 SA

1

5

1

7

55.7

0.13

0.02

26.29

69 TUN

0

0

1

1

11.2

0.09

0.00

22.73

43 SVK

1

1

0

2

5.4

0.37

0.18

22.27

42 ROM

1

1

2

4

19.9

0.20

0.05

21.98

27 GRE

2

1

1

4

10.9

0.37

0.18

20.56

9 AUS

7

8

9

24

24.2

0.99

0.29

19.99

7 NED

8

3

3

14

17.0

0.82

0.47

18.36

2 GB

19

19

12

50

65.1

0.77

0.29

18.11

24 COL

2

2

0

4

48.8

0.08

0.04

15.80

23 POL

2

2

3

7

38.4

0.18

0.05

14.78

21 PRK

2

3

2

7

25.3

0.28

0.08

13.01

6 ITA

8

9

6

23

60.7

0.38

0.13

12.44

8 FRA

7

11

11

29

66.7

0.43

0.10

11.77

34 SWE

1

4

1

6

9.9

0.61

0.10

11.70

25 BEL

2

1

2

5

11.3

0.44

0.18

10.75

11 KOR

6

3

5

14

50.8

0.28

0.12

10.60

31 IRN

2

0

2

4

79.5

0.05

0.03

10.36

48 PUR

1

0

0

1

10.3

0.10

0.10

10.03

43 VIE

1

1

0

2

92.7

0.02

0.01

9.93

27 THA

2

1

1

4

65.7

0.06

0.03

9.76

17 CAN

3

2

9

14

36.2

0.39

0.08

9.57

69 MOR

0

0

1

1

34.0

0.03

0.00

9.25

66 NOR

0

0

3

3

5.2

0.57

0.00

8.18

56 IRE

0

2

0

2

4.8

0.42

0.00

7.86

25 SWI

2

1

2

5

8.3

0.60

0.24

7.67

5 GER

11

8

7

26

81.8

0.32

0.13

7.50

15 BRZ

3

4

4

11

206.5

0.05

0.01

7.17

29 ARG

2

1

0

3

43.6

0.07

0.05

6.85

10 JPN

7

4

18

29

127.0

0.23

0.06

6.57

67 ISR

0

0

2

2

8.5

0.23

0.00

6.53

59 MAS

0

1

1

2

31.0

0.06

0.00

6.47

67 EGY

0

0

2

2

91.5

0.02

0.00

6.05

61 ALG

0

1

0

1

40.4

0.02

0.00

6.03

46 TPE

1

0

2

3

23.5

0.13

0.04

5.90

61 QAT

0

1

0

1

2.3

0.43

0.00

5.85

13 SPA

4

1

2

7

46.4

0.15

0.09

5.63

61 VEN

0

1

0

1

31.0

0.03

0.00

5.39

69 POR

0

0

1

1

10.3

0.10

0.00

4.88

1 US

28

28

28

84

324.2

0.26

0.09

4.53

3 CHN

17

15

19

51

1378.2

0.04

0.01

4.48

55 TUR

0

2

1

3

78.7

0.04

0.00

3.99

48 SIN

1

0

0

1

5.5

0.18

0.18

3.39

61 PHI

0

1

0

1

102.9

0.01

0.00

3.22

69 UAE

0

0

1

1

9.9

0.10

0.00

3.08

69 AUT

0

0

1

1

8.7

0.11

0.00

2.60

56 IDN

0

2

0

2

258.7

0.01

0.00

2.13

47 IOA

1

0

1

2

0.0

Yes, of course USA is top nation at the moment (in terms of Olympic medals) but it’s got a large population. Wouldn’t a fairer comparison be medals per head of population, or rather, per million. Here are the results sorted that way, as of 15 August 2016:

medals per head of population smaller Medals Per Million 15 August

Comments: 3

  1. Andy S says:

    Nice one DR.

  2. Richard says:

    How about looking at number of medal winning athletes per million people. I think that would change it round quite a lot by taking out the “Phelps effect”. Perhaps not so easy to do though.

    • david says:

      Interesting idea. I’d need to find a source for the medal-winning athletes. Stars per million of population would be a nice way of looking at it.

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