Medal Count
[Edit: updated again 8/18]
It’s time for counting medals again, and this summer, as you all know, has a smackdown for the ages in USA vs. China. And as exciting as that may be… it’s predictable and lame. We’ve got the country with the highest GDP vs. the country with the most people. Of course they are going to spit out a ton of medals.
Let’s take a look at the medal count from two other perspectives:
Medals per Population
1) Slovenia (1 medal per 507K people)
2) Armenia (1 per 600K)
3) Australia (1 per 648K)
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41) USA (1 per 4.23M people)
58) China (1 per 19.8M people)
Medals per GDP
1) North Korea (1 medal per $370M)
2) Kyrgyzstan (1 per $1.74B)
3) Armenia (1 per $1.85B)
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37) China (1 per $49.2B)
63) USA (1 per $192B)
