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Barozi said:
Mike_L said:

Yeah, US and particularly UK did great. Congrats!

Looking at medals per capita my country (Denmark) dominated the US though

Rank Country Medals Population Population
per Medal
1 Grenada 1 106,825 106,825
2 Bahamas 2 388,019 194,009
3 Jamaica 11 2,725,941 247,812
4 New Zealand 18 4,595,700 255,316
5 Denmark 15 5,676,002 378,400
[...]        
43 United States 121 321,418,820 2,656,353

I saw that ranking and I like the idea behind it, but why use all medals? They should remove the silver and bronze and do a population per gold medal instead

There is a ranking with only gold medals but why is that better? Expectations are often based (and success measured) on the total number of medals.

This is the ranking with gold medals per capita.

Rank Country Gold Medals Population Population
per Gold Medal
1 Grenada 1 110,821 110,821
2 Bahamas 1 353,658 353,658
3 Jamaica 4 2,705,827 676,456
4 New Zealand 6 4,432,620 738,770
[...]        
17 Denmark 2 5,580,516 2,790,258
[...]        
28 United States 46 313,382,000 6,812,652