Monday, August 13, 2007

Average Olympic Medals Won Per Million Inhabitants

This map illustrates the average number of medals won per million people in an Olympic Summer Games between 1996 and 2004. Medal counts from the last three Olympic Games were used. So the Bahamas were on top with 5 medals over the last 3 Olympics with a population of 331,000 which works out to 5.04 medals per million people per Olympic Game.

Top counties are:

1. Bahamas 5.04 (Per Million Per Game)
2. Cuba 2.40
3. Australia 2.35
4. Jamaica 2.21
5. Hungary 1.83
31. Russia 0.57
36. Canada 0.49
46. United States 0.33
78. China 0.04