Woodhugger Engineering web logs: You Do The Math

Sure, the US usually wins the medal count, but that's because we have over 320 million residents, twice that of Russia, and five times that of Britain. However, China and India have 1.3 to 1.4 BILLION, shouldn't they always beat our pants off?

Here's where I get my data.

So, who has the most medals "per capita"? New Zealand and Jamaica are darn high up there, around 4 medals per million residents, Denmark is at 2.5 medals per million, and many have over 1 medal per million. Even Norway beats us, despite being the most northern country, or close to it.

In fact, most industrialized countries whup our butts. Somebody needs to Make America Great Again! Gee, I wonder who.

And who is really doing poorly? China has 1/20th, Nigeria has 1/180th, and lowly India with 1/626th of a medal per million people.

Here's what I had time for today. More to come.

(Keep in mind, 10 or 20 million of US residents are illegal, and probably can't compete, so the US actually did beat Russia in the "per capita" category with 0.39 to their 0.38 medals per million.)

RIO GAMES
Total Population Medals
Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Medals in millions per Capita
1 United States 43 37 38 118 321.4 0.37
2 Great Britain 27 22 17 66 64.1 1.03
3 China 26 18 26 70 1,367.5 0.05
4 Russia 18 17 19 54 142.4 0.38
5 Germany 17 10 15 42 80.8 0.52
6 Japan 12 8 21 41 126.9 0.32
7 France 9 17 14 40 66.5 0.60
8 Korea 9 3 9 21 49.1 0.43
9 Australia 8 11 10 29 22.8 1.27
10 Italy 8 11 7 26 61.9 0.42
11 Netherlands 8 6 4 18
12 Hungary 8 3 4 15
13 Spain 7 4 4 15
14 Brazil 6 6 6 18 204.2 0.09
15 Kenya 6 6 1 13 45.9 0.28
16 Jamaica 6 3 2 11 2.9 3.79
17 Croatia 5 3 2 10
18 Cuba 5 2 4 11
19 New Zealand 4 9 5 18 4.4 4.09
20 Canada 4 3 15 22 35.1 0.63
21 Kazakhstan 3 5 9 17 18.2 0.93
22 Colombia 3 2 3 8
23 Iran 3 1 4 8
24 Greece 3 1 2 6
25 Argentina 3 1 0 4
26 Sweden 2 6 3 11 9.8 1.12
27 South Africa 2 6 2 10
28 Ukraine 2 5 4 11
29 Poland 2 3 6 11
30 North Korea 2 3 2 7
30 Serbia 2 3 2 7
32 Uzbekistan 2 2 5 9
33 Belgium 2 2 2 6
33 Switzerland 2 2 2 6
33 Thailand 2 2 2 6
36 Slovakia 2 2 0 4
37 Georgia 2 1 4 7 4.9 1.43
38 Denmark 1 6 7 14 5.6 2.50
39 Azerbaijan 1 4 10 15 9.8 1.53
40 Belarus 1 4 4 9
41 Turkey 1 3 4 8
42 Armenia 1 3 0 4
43 Ethiopia 1 2 5 8
44 Slovenia 1 2 1 4
45 Indonesia 1 2 0 3
46 Czech Republic 1 1 7 9
47 Romania 1 1 2 4
48 Bahrain 1 1 0 2
48 Vietnam 1 1 0 2
50 Chinese Taipei 1 0 2 3
51 Bahamas 1 0 1 2
51 Côte d’Ivoire 1 0 1 2
51 IOA 1 0 1 2
54 Fiji 1 0 0 1
54 Jordan 1 0 0 1
54 Kosovo 1 0 0 1
54 Puerto Rico 1 0 0 1
54 Singapore 1 0 0 1
54 Tajikistan 1 0 0 1
60 Malaysia 0 4 1 5
61 Mexico 0 3 2 5 127.1 0.039
62 Algeria 0 2 0 2
62 Ireland 0 2 0 2 4.9 0.41
64 Lithuania 0 1 3 4
65 Bulgaria 0 1 2 3
65 Venezuela 0 1 2 3
67 India 0 1 1 2 1,251.7 0.0016
67 Mongolia 0 1 1 2
69 Burundi 0 1 0 1
69 Grenada 0 1 0 1
69 Niger 0 1 0 1
69 Philippines 0 1 0 1
69 Qatar 0 1 0 1
74 Norway 0 0 4 4 5.2 0.769
75 Egypt 0 0 3 3
75 Tunisia 0 0 3 3
77 Israel 0 0 2 2 8.0 0.25
78 Austria 0 0 1 1
78 Dominican Republic 0 0 1 1
78 Estonia 0 0 1 1
78 Finland 0 0 1 1
78 Morocco 0 0 1 1
78 Moldova 0 0 1 1
78 Nigeria 0 0 1 1 181.6 0.006
78 Portugal 0 0 1 1
78 Trinidad and Tobago 0 0 1 1
78 United Arab Emirates 0 0 1 1
- Afghanistan 0 0 0 0
- Albania 0 0 0 0
- American Samoa 0 0 0 0
- Andorra 0 0 0 0
- Angola 0 0 0 0
- Antigua and Barbuda 0 0 0 0
- Aruba 0 0 0 0
- Bangladesh 0 0 0 0
- Barbados 0 0 0 0
- Belize 0 0 0 0
- Benin 0 0 0 0
- Bermuda 0 0 0 0
- Bhutan 0 0 0 0
- Bolivia 0 0 0 0
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 0 0 0
- Botswana 0 0 0 0
- British Virgin Islands 0 0 0 0
- Brunei 0 0 0 0
- Burkina Faso 0 0 0 0
- Cabo Verde 0 0 0 0
- Cambodia 0 0 0 0
- Cameroon 0 0 0 0
- Cayman Islands 0 0 0 0
- Central African Republic 0 0 0 0
- Chad 0 0 0 0
- Chile 0 0 0 0
- Comoros 0 0 0 0
- Congo 0 0 0 0
- Congo (DRC) 0 0 0 0
- Cook Islands 0 0 0 0
- Costa Rica 0 0 0 0
- Cyprus 0 0 0 0
- Djibouti 0 0 0 0
- Dominica 0 0 0 0
- Ecuador 0 0 0 0
- El Salvador 0 0 0 0
- Equatorial Guinea 0 0 0 0
- Eritrea 0 0 0 0
- Gabon 0 0 0 0
- Gambia 0 0 0 0
- Ghana 0 0 0 0
- Guam 0 0 0 0
- Guatemala 0 0 0 0
- Guinea 0 0 0 0
- Guinea-Bissau 0 0 0 0
- Guyana 0 0 0 0
- Haiti 0 0 0 0
- Honduras 0 0 0 0
- Hong Kong SAR 0 0 0 0
- Iceland 0 0 0 0
- Iraq 0 0 0 0
- Kiribati 0 0 0 0
- Kuwait 0 0 0 0
- Kyrgyzstan 0 0 0 0
- Laos 0 0 0 0
- Latvia 0 0 0 0
- Lebanon 0 0 0 0
- Lesotho 0 0 0 0
- Liberia 0 0 0 0
- Libya 0 0 0 0
- Liechtenstein 0 0 0 0
- Luxembourg 0 0 0 0
- Macedonia, FYRO 0 0 0 0
- Madagascar 0 0 0 0
- Malawi 0 0 0 0
- Maldives 0 0 0 0
- Mali 0 0 0 0
- Malta 0 0 0 0
- Marshall Islands 0 0 0 0
- Mauritania 0 0 0 0
- Mauritius 0 0 0 0
- Micronesia 0 0 0 0
- Monaco 0 0 0 0
- Montenegro 0 0 0 0
- Mozambique 0 0 0 0
- Myanmar 0 0 0 0
- Namibia 0 0 0 0
- Nauru 0 0 0 0
- Nepal 0 0 0 0
- Nicaragua 0 0 0 0
- Oman 0 0 0 0
- Pakistan 0 0 0 0
- Palau 0 0 0 0
- Palestinian Authority 0 0 0 0
- Panama 0 0 0 0
- Papua New Guinea 0 0 0 0
- Paraguay 0 0 0 0
- Peru 0 0 0 0
- Refugee Olympic Team 0 0 0 0
- Rwanda 0 0 0 0
- Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 0 0 0
- Saint Lucia 0 0 0 0
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 0 0 0
- Samoa 0 0 0 0
- San Marino 0 0 0 0
- Saudi Arabia 0 0 0 0
- Senegal 0 0 0 0
- Seychelles 0 0 0 0
- Sierra Leone 0 0 0 0
- Solomon Islands 0 0 0 0
- Somalia 0 0 0 0
- South Sudan 0 0 0 0
- Sri Lanka 0 0 0 0
- Sudan 0 0 0 0
- Suriname 0 0 0 0
- Swaziland 0 0 0 0
- Syria 0 0 0 0
- São Tomé and Príncipe 0 0 0 0
- Tanzania 0 0 0 0
- Timor-Leste 0 0 0 0
- Togo 0 0 0 0
- Tonga 0 0 0 0
- Turkmenistan 0 0 0 0
- Tuvalu 0 0 0 0
- U.S. Virgin Islands 0 0 0 0
- Uganda 0 0 0 0
- Uruguay 0 0 0 0
- Vanuatu 0 0 0 0
- Yemen 0 0 0 0
- Zambia 0 0 0 0
- Zimbabwe 0 0 0 0
Data from PERFORM · All times are Eastern Standard Time