A Different way of looking at the Olympics

[KKr]

The results to date (162, 162 and 178 medals according to Reuters) compared against the population of various countries.
Observations:
India is not in the table; China in the lower end.
Grenada is statistically speaking an outlier.
Your as ever constructive observations are appreciated:

 

Country represented	# inhabitants	# Medals	Medals per million
Grenada	110,694	1	9.03
New Zealand	4,438,393	8	1.80
Slovenia	1,983,412	3	1.51
Denmark	5,581,503	7	1.25
Hungary	9,897,541	12	1.21
Fiji	909,389	1	1.10
Lithuania	2,884,433	3	1.04
Jamaica	2,950,210	3	1.02
Australia	22,751,014	22	0.97
Estonia	1,265,420	1	0.79
Bahrain	1,346,613	1	0.74
Croatia	4,464,844	3	0.67
Switzerland	8,121,830	5	0.62
Sweden	9,801,616	6	0.61
Norway	5,207,689	3	0.58
Kosovo	1,870,981	1	0.53
Netherlands	16,947,904	9	0.53
Kazakhstan	18,157,122	8	0.44
Belarus	9,589,689	4	0.42
Georgia	4,931,226	2	0.41
Canada	35,099,836	13	0.37
Slovakia	5,445,027	2	0.37
Belgium	11,323,973	4	0.35
Italy	61,855,120	21	0.34
Mongolia	2,992,908	1	0.33
France	66,553,766	22	0.33
Puerto Rico	3,598,357	1	0.28
Cuba	11,031,433	3	0.27
Israel	8,049,314	2	0.25
United States	321,368,864	69	0.21
Russia	142,423,773	30	0.21
Germany	80,854,408	17	0.21
Japan	126,919,659	26	0.20
Azerbaijan	9,780,780	2	0.20
Ireland	4,892,305	1	0.20
Greece	10,775,643	2	0.19
Romania	21,666,350	4	0.18
Kyrgyzstan	5,664,939	1	0.18
Singapore	5,674,472	1	0.18
United Arab Emirates	5,779,760	1	0.17
Independent olympic athlete	12,000,000	2	0.17
Uzbekistan	29,199,942	4	0.14
South Africa	53,675,563	7	0.13
Spain	48,146,134	5	0.10
Poland	38,562,189	4	0.10
Portugal	10,825,309	1	0.09
Tunisia	11,037,225	1	0.09
Ukraine	44,429,471	4	0.09
Colombia	46,736,728	4	0.09
Kenya	45,925,301	3	0.07
Thailand	67,976,405	4	0.06
Argentina	43,431,886	2	0.05
Ethiopia	99,465,819	4	0.04
Iran	81,824,270	3	0.04
Venezuela	29,275,460	1	0.03
China	1,367,485,388	45	0.03
Malaysia	30,513,848	1	0.03
Brazil	204,259,812	6	0.03
Egypt	88,487,396	2	0.02
Vietnam	94,348,835	2	0.02
Turkey	79,414,269	1	0.01
Philippines	100,998,376	1	0.01
Indonesia	255,993,674	2	0.01

[DoctorG]

Have seen this done before in previous Olympics. Always good fun and a chance for the smaller nations to boast a bit

[bark]

My friend just left the USA a few minutes ago. Can you revise the medal table.

I want the true results.  thanks

 

[hobobo]

34 minutes ago, bark said:

My friend just left the USA a few minutes ago. Can you revise the medal table.

I want the true results.  thanks

 

And my cousin had triplets in Denmark. That should <deleted> up their score!

[Thailimpan]

The ability to do summer sports are not the same all over the world. I argue that there need to be season index as well as certain sports can't be practiced all year in all countries. 

[SoiBiker]

Where is Great Britain? 

[Wilsonandson]

21 minutes ago, SoiBiker said:

Where is Great Britain? 

Yes, Where?

[bazza40]

It's an event so corrupted by drugs, money and politics it is no longer worth watching.

 

An Australian ex-politician came up with an interesting proposition. Return the Olympics to Greece permanently, thus eliminating the corrupt process which decides the host city. Also giving the Greeks a badly-needed economic boost.

 

I don't understand why golf and tennis are included, the original Greek Olympics certainly didn't have these sports. Although it's interesting golf is the only sport where the only effective performance-enhancing drug in the past has been alcohol.

 

 

Edited August 16, 2016 by bazza40
adjective addition

[houlicha]

For that matter, where is India?

[tifino]

 

what if the size of the representing teams are applied, instead of the population?

 

it's the teams that are doing the hard yards for their medals, not the lounge lizards back at home

[sweetrogue]

1 hour ago, bazza40 said:

It's an event so corrupted by drugs, money and politics it is no longer worth watching.

 

An Australian ex-politician came up with an interesting proposition. Return the Olympics to Greece permanently, thus eliminating the corrupt process which decides the host city. Also giving the Greeks a badly-needed economic boost.

 

I don't understand why golf and tennis are included, the original Greek Olympics certainly didn't have these sports. Although it's interesting golf is the only sport where the only effective performance-enhancing drug in the past has been alcohol.

 

 

 

The whole rotten circus needs to be cleansed from the very top to the very bottom. It won't happen though, and anyway I doubt there exist powerful enough disinfectants to do the job properly.

[BlindMagician]

2 hours ago, SoiBiker said:

Where is Great Britain? 

 

Team GB is actually GB+NI, isn't it? UK population is 64m, with 41 medals, gives about 0.64.

 

Could also normalise against budget, itself normalised for bang for buck local costs.

 

Ultimately, normalise against talent, or against number of medals won, and we all get 1.0 result, which seems fair to me.

[KKr]

14 hours ago, SoiBiker said:

Where is Great Britain? 

Good question, seems lost in European Union in EXCEL, will update later today in Numbers. 

[bark]

15 hours ago, SoiBiker said:

Where is Great Britain? 

Sorry, not so Great any more. no Scotland and no Green country. In two years, it will only be England and the Whalers.

[SoiBiker]

5 hours ago, bark said:

Sorry, not so Great any more. no Scotland and no Green country. In two years, it will only be England and the Whalers.

Scotland hasn't left the union just yet, you know.

[bark]

1 hour ago, SoiBiker said:

Scotland hasn't left the union just yet, you know.

Within two years, they will. I heard they will join Canada.

[KKr]

Today's update.
Great Britain is now devided under the United Kingdom, and the Koreas and Taiwan (Taipei) also added.

After the Olympics, time permitting will do the Income and GNP correlations.
 

Country		inhabitants	medals	medals/million
GRENADA	GRN	110,694	1	9.03
CZECH REPUBLIC	CZE	1,189,197	7	5.89
NEW ZEALAND	NZL	4,438,393	10	2.25
SLOVENIA	SLO	1,983,412	4	2.02
JAMAICA	JAM	2,950,210	5	1.69
DENMARK	DEN	5,581,503	9	1.61
BAHRAIN	BRN	1,346,613	2	1.49
HUNGARY	HUN	9,897,541	13	1.31
ARMENIA	ARM	3,056,382	4	1.31
GEORGIA	GEO	4,931,226	6	1.22
CROATIA	CRO	4,464,844	5	1.12
FIJI	FIJ	909,389	1	1.10
AUSTRALIA	AUS	22,751,014	24	1.05
LITHUANIA	LTU	2,884,433	3	1.04
NETHERLANDS	NED	16,947,904	14	0.83
ESTONIA	EST	1,265,420	1	0.79
United Kingdom	GBR	64,088,222	50	0.78
CUBA	CUB	11,031,433	8	0.73
MONGOLIA	MGL	2,992,908	2	0.67
SWITZERLAND	SUI	8,121,830	5	0.62
AZERBAIJAN	AZE	9,780,780	6	0.61
SWEDEN	SWE	9,801,616	6	0.61
NORWAY	NOR	5,207,689	3	0.58
KAZAKHSTAN	KAZ	18,157,122	10	0.55
KOSOVO	KOS	1,870,981	1	0.53
BELARUS	BLR	9,589,689	5	0.52
QATAR	QAT	2,194,817	1	0.46
REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA	MDA	2,194,817	1	0.46
BELGIUM	BEL	11,323,973	5	0.44
FRANCE	FRA	66,553,766	29	0.44
IRELAND	IRL	4,892,305	2	0.41
CANADA	CAN	35,099,836	14	0.40
ITALY	ITA	61,855,120	23	0.37
GREECE	GRE	10,775,643	4	0.37
SLOVAKIA	SVK	5,445,027	2	0.37
GERMANY	GER	80,854,408	26	0.32
KOREA, south	KOR	49,115,196	14	0.29
KOREA, north	PRK	24,983,205	7	0.28
PUERTO RICO	PUR	3,598,357	1	0.28
RUSSIAN FEDERATION	RUS	142,423,773	38	0.27
UNITED STATES	USA	321,368,864	84	0.26
ISRAEL	ISR	8,049,314	2	0.25
JAPAN	JPN	126,919,659	29	0.23
UZBEKISTAN	UZB	29,199,942	6	0.21
ROMANIA	ROU	21,666,350	4	0.18
POLAND	POL	38,562,189	7	0.18
KYRGYZSTAN	KGZ	5,664,939	1	0.18
SINGAPORE	SIN	5,674,472	1	0.18
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES	UAE	5,779,760	1	0.17
IOA	IOA	12,000,000	2	0.17
UKRAINE	UKR	44,429,471	7	0.16
SPAIN	ESP	48,146,134	7	0.15
SERBIA	SRB	7,176,794	1	0.14
KENYA	KEN	45,925,301	6	0.13
SOUTH AFRICA	RSA	53,675,563	7	0.13
TAIWAN	TPE	23,415,126	3	0.13
AUSTRIA	AUT	8,665,550	1	0.12
BAHAMAS	BAH	9,780,780	1	0.10
PORTUGAL	POR	10,825,309	1	0.09
TUNISIA	TUN	11,037,225	1	0.09
COLOMBIA	COL	46,736,728	4	0.09
ARGENTINA	ARG	43,431,886	3	0.07
MALAYSIA	MAS	30,513,848	2	0.07
THAILAND	THA	67,976,405	4	0.06
BRAZIL	BRA	204,259,812	11	0.05
ETHIOPIA	ETH	99,465,819	5	0.05
IRAN	IRI	81,824,270	4	0.05
TURKEY	TUR	79,414,269	3	0.04
CHINA	CHN	1,367,485,388	51	0.04
VENEZUELA	VEN	29,275,460	1	0.03
MOROCCO	MAR	33,322,699	1	0.03
ALGERIA	ALG	39,542,166	1	0.03
EGYPT	EGY	88,487,396	2	0.02
VIETNAM	VIE	94,348,835	2	0.02
PHILIPPINES	PHI	100,998,376	1	0.01
INDONESIA	INA	255,993,674	2	0.01