Year 2012 Olympiad, Summer Games, Medals Won per Country Population - Weighted (min 2 medals)



Weighting is performed by letting Bronze=1, Silver=1.2, Gold=1.5. This convention is somewhat exponential, similar to the convention of Bronze=1, Silver=2, and Gold=4 however, in maintaining integers there is an enormous disparity that would be hard to reconcile.

I am using the natural logarithm here as I believe this to be more accurate than simply looking at a population as a country with 200 million people cannot enter 10X as many teams as one with a population of 20 million. However, In an increased population, there would be naturally (and with training) more at the extreme of the distribution worthy to be in the Olympics and thus a higher population would be expected to have more "talent". Now for the sake of a quick comparison, the log of 200 million and 20 million, respectively are about 19.1 and 16.8. Certainly for a sport where there might only be 10 persons representing their country, if theoretically the very best are put forward, it would be expected there would be a small difference between the best of a larger population country versus a smaller ones, per all other factors balanced as this goes directly to the probabilities of distributions, A more complicated measure could be undertaken but this one I feel does what it is intended to do. Whereas Jamaica was far on top per my prior two websites of making such a comparison, albeit still noteworthy comparisons, we should see in this more accurate comparison, findings that shouldn't be all too surprising but there would likely be some surprises.

As you can see, the wealthier countries are on top, but some not so wealthy are up there as well which could be partly explained by the choice of government and within the culture as well, to put greater importance in international competition. Generally, the impoverished nations do not fare as well and you may guess that some countries really do not have much of an interest, apparently based in their cultural values which may be based in religion, displacement with other desires, too much of a struggle to survive and which I say has much to do with irresponsible overpopulating. I will soon make a web site of GDP per person and rank by birth rate and by population density. Somehow those in third world countries have to come to the realization that making fewer babies is more responsible, in making only those the parents can support and which there is opportunity within the country to not have say 10% of the population as migrant workers in other countries and have to rely on a female member of the family to be a prostitute - it boils down to the decisions of parents and so many take that big responsibility too lightly.

For a simple medals per population table: 2012 Olympics, Medals Won per Country Population

Rank	Country	Population (millions)	Weighted Medals	Weighted Medals/Log Population
1	United States	314	132.8	6.79
2	China	1,350	111.4	5.30
3	Russian Federation	143	99	5.27
4	Great Britain	62.3	82.9	4.62
5	Germany	81.9	53.3	2.93
6	Australia	22.7	41.7	2.46
7	Japan	128	44.3	2.37
8	France	65.4	41.7	2.32
9	Republic of Korea	50.0	36.1	2.04
10	Italy	60.8	33.8	1.89
11	Netherlands	16.7	24.2	1.46
12	Ukraine	45.6	24	1.36
13	Hungary	9.96	21.8	1.35
14	Spain	46.2	20.5	1.16
15	Canada	34.9	19.5	1.12
16	New Zealand	4.43	16.1	1.05
17	Cuba	11.2	17.1	1.05
18	Brazil	192	19.5	1.02
19	Kazakhstan	16.8	16.7	1.00
20	Jamaica	2.71	14.8	0.999
21	Belarus	9.46	15.5	0.965
22	Iran	75.1	15	0.827
23	Czech Republic	10.5	12.6	0.779
24	Kenya	42.7	12.8	0.729
25	Azerbaijan	9.24	11.4	0.711
26	Denmark	5.58	10.8	0.695
27	Romania	19.0	11	0.656
28	Poland	38.5	11.4	0.653
29	Sweden	9.51	9.3	0.579
30	Georgia	4.50	8.1	0.529
31	Colombia	46.6	9.1	0.515
32	Croatia	4.29	7.7	0.504
33	Ethiopia	84.3	8.7	0.477
34	North Korea	24.6	8	0.470
35	South Africa	50.6	7.9	0.445
36	Mexico	112	8.1	0.437
37	Lithuania	3.19	6.2	0.414
38	Ireland	4.59	5.7	0.372
39	Mongolia	2.84	5.4	0.363
40	Turkey	74.7	6.4	0.353
41	Switzerland	7.95	5.4	0.340
42	Norway	5.03	5.2	0.337
43	Slovenia	2.06	4.7	0.323
44	India	1,210	6.4	0.306
45	Serbia	7.12	4.7	0.298
46	Trinidad and Tobago	1.32	4	0.284
47	Slovakia	5.45	4.2	0.271
48	Argentina	40.1	4.7	0.268
49	Uzbekistan	29.1	4.5	0.262
50	Tunisia	10.7	3.7	0.229
51	Armenia	3.27	3.2	0.213
52	Finland	5.41	3.2	0.206
53	Belgium	11.0	3.2	0.197
54	Thailand	65.5	3.4	0.189
55	Latvia	2.07	2.5	0.172
56	Dominican Republic	9.45	2.7	0.168
57	Estonia	1.29	2.2	0.156
58	Puerto Rico	3.73	2.2	0.145
59	Taipei	6.90	2.2	0.140
60	Qatar	1.70	2	0.139
61	Bulgaria	7.36	2.2	0.139
62	Moldova	3.56	2	0.133
63	Egypt	82.5	2.4	0.132
64	Singapore	5.18	2	0.129
65	Malaysia	28.3	2.2	0.128
66	Greece	10.8	2	0.123
67	Indonesia	238	2.2	0.114

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