How well did your nation perform at the olympics?

[Barozi]

Mike_L said:

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

Well the list is already wrong though as the only medal Grenada won was silver and not gold.

The official ranking isn't sorted by total medals either, so why should this?