Real gold medal tally

[_Johnsy]

I have taken the gold medals and divided it by the population of that country. I stopped at 2 gold medals. So here is the current medal tally and the position of the new medal tally. The first is the gold medals and pop, the 2nd is new position and gold per number of people.

USA 25 (288,203,200) 21st (11,528,128)
China 24 (1,305,748,813) 27th (54,406,200)
Aus 16 (19,603,502) 1st (1,225,218)
Japan 15 (127,752,628) 17th (8,516,841)
Russia 13 (143,017,306) 20th (11,001,331)
France 10 (60,368,696) 14th (6,036,869)
Germany 9 (81,846,590) 19th (9,094,065)
Italy 8 (57,479,234) 15th (7,184,904)
Romania 8 (22,358,734) 7th (2,794,841)
Ukraine 8 (47,723,721) 13th (5,965,465)
Great Britain 7 (49, 997, 100) 18th (7,142,442)
Korea 6 (71,452,315) 29th (119,087,190)
Greece 6 (10,559,000) 2nd (1,759,833)
Netherlands 4 (16,325,984) 11th (4,081,496)
Hungary 4 (10,010,671) 24th (25,026,670)
Sweden 3 (8,924,000) 8th (2,974,666)
Turkey 3 (69,213,189) 23rd (23,071,063)
Belarus 2 (10,151,674) 12th (5,075,837)
Poland 2 (38,646,000) 22nd (19,323,000)
Slovakia 2 (5,400,000) 6th (2,700,000)
Bulgaria 2 (7,688,094) 10th (3,844,047)
Brazil 2 (185,033,328) 28th (92,516,664)
Ethiopia 2 (68,376,620) 26th (34,188,310)
Georgia 2 (4,796,844) 5th (2,398,422)
Thailand 2 (64,942,135) 25th (32,471,067)
Chile 2 (15,845,409) 16th (7,922,704)
New Zealand 2 (3,915,211) 3rd (1,957,605)
Norway 2 (4,547,980) 4th (2,273,990)

This confirms what we allready knew, we are the greatest sporting nation on earth.

 

[c_eagle]

Gee, I'm almost certain Australia surpassed the 20 million barrier. Oh well, just shows how good we are

 

[douglasallen91]

i think the bahamas is the best at the moment at 299,697 per gold medal. just like they where at the sydney olympics in total medals when they only got gold medals.

 

[hotsnow]

Yeah, Sunrise had Bahamas at No.1 with one gold and something like 300k people.

 

[Tupac Shakur]

China are in like 33rd on Sunrise.

Gee, I'm almost certain Australia surpassed the 20 million barrier. Oh well, just shows how good we are

Yeah we are passed it.

On 26 August 2004 at 11:30:36 (Canberra time), the resident population of Australia is projected to be:


20,170,469

This projection is based on the estimated resident population at 31 December 2003 and assumes growth since then of:

one birth every 2 minutes and 5 seconds,
one death every 3 minutes and 55 seconds,
a net gain of one international migrant every 4 minutes and 4 second leading to
an overall total population increase of one person every 2 minutes and 7 seconds.

 

[Twizzle]

Yeah, Sunrise had Bahamas at No.1 with one gold and something like 300k people.

Those stats were shown this morning, but they were calculated prior to us winning the 2 cycling gold medals last night, according to the Sunrise team.

 

[JJ]

table's based on current population - it probably wouldn't change much but a better way to do it would be by population per gold medal at the time the gold medal was won.

Although, at early Olympics the home nation had a huge advantage as travel was difficult

 

[Blade]

Hey Johnsy . . .

Just out of curiosity, where did you get the country's population figures from?

 

[Tupac Shakur]

Blade, i got Australia's population from the Australian Bureau of Statistics site
http://www.abs.gov.au and it also has the Worlds population.