Olympic Medals Per Capita
Going back to my earlier post on measuring economic output per person or capita, Bill Mitchell on his website obviously thought that ranking Olympic achievements on a per capita basis was going to be fairer than the overall picture presented by the conventional medal table.
As he says, “I consider [the per capita ranking] to be more meaningful than the official rankings which just reflect world power derived from economic might.”
Bill has an interesting taken on the data, but be warned he uses the unique-to-the-US ranking style, tallying the total number of medals, rather than the number of gold medals ranking used by the rest of the world. Coincidentally Team USA are ranked first in the world on a US ranking only, not in golds won.
