Posts Tagged ‘Olympic medal count per capita’

The US (population 300 million) won 104 Olympic medals besting China (population 1.3 billion) with 88 medals, but which country was #1 after adjusting for population? On a per capita basis, Grenada was first, winning a medal for every 111,000 people, with Jamaica next, winning a medal/225,000 people. The US ranked 49th winning one medal/3,000,000…