Thursday, August 02, 2012

Olympic Medals, adjusted for population size

Repeating the methodology shown here of dividing the number of medals gained by the country's population in millions, to get a Fair Olympic Medal Quotient, here is the current position :

Country      Adjusted medal/pop figure 



  1. Australia      0.43
  2. Netherlands  0.29
  3. S Korea       0.27
  4. France         0.23
  5. GBR           0.23
  6. N Korea      0.2
  7. Canada        0.2
  8. Germany     0.18
  9. Italy            0.167 
  10. Japan          0.133
  11. Ukraine       0.13
  12. USA           0.099
  13. Russia         0.09
  14. China          0.024
  15. Brazil          0.02


So there you go.
Per capita, the Ozzies are well fit, and the Big Three, USA Russia and China, are just also-rans.

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