Barozi said:
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 |