London 2012 Olympic Games: Medal strike rate

Who has the highest medal strike rate in 2012? 

We are crunching the numbers during the London 2012 Olympic Games to show how many medals countries are winning relative to their population. 

This differs from the traditional medal table, which ranks countries on the basis of how many gold, silver, and bronze medals they have won. 

For example, at the end of day 5, Qatar had one bronze medal, putting them 39th equal on the traditional medal table, and New Zealand, with two bronze medals, was 37th equal. However, if we rank countries on the basis of medals per million people, Qatar (1.76 million people) came 1st, and New Zealand (approximately 4.4 million people) came 3rd. 

Using the traditional overall medal count, China was the day 5 leader, with 17 gold, nine silver, and four bronze medals. On our medal count, China was 42nd, because its population is 1.3 billion. 

We will update the graphs below each work day during the Games.

 

 

Medal count, after day 5, London 2012 Olympic Games
				Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Ranking	Total per 1m pop			Actual number
1	0.57		Qatar	0	0	1	1
2	0.49		Slovenia	1	0	0	1
3	0.46		New Zealand	0	0	2	2
4	0.41		Norway	0	1	1	2
5	0.40		Australia	1	6	2	9
6	0.40		Hungary	2	1	1	4
7	0.37		Slovakia	0	0	2	2
8	0.36		Mongolia	0	0	1	1
9	0.30		Lithuania	1	0	0	1
10	0.28		Moldova	0	0	1	1

Page updated 2 August 2012