Beijing Olympics Medal Facts
August 25, 2008Hey .. who doesn’t like a decent set of facts?
India has 17% of the world’s population. They won 0.31% of Olympic medals.
China: 19.8% of population, 10.4% of medals.
United States: 4.6% of population, 11.5% medals.
Jamaica: 0.041% of population, 1.15% medals.
Iceland was the least populous country to win an Olympic medal.
Pakistan was the most populous country not to win an Olympic medal (164 million residents, sixth-largest nation in the world).
Michael Phelps would have finished tied for 9th in the gold medal count, ahead of countries including France, Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Argentina, Switzerland, Brazil and Mexico.
The rest of the world won seven golds in men’s swimming events. Phelps, of course, won eight.
