Australia's Channel 9 News reported on August 6 that among the top 10 countries in the current Olympic medal table, Australia has established its status as the "best Olympic country per capita" with its per capita medal performance.
At the time of writing on the morning of 6 August, Australia had won more than one medal per million people, the only country in the top 10 of the medal table to do so.
Specifically, Australia won 1.22 medals per million people, which is beyond the reach of almost all other countries.
Not only that, but Australia also ranks high in terms of the number of gold medals per capita, reaching 0.48 per million people.
It was followed by Netherlands with 0.94 medals per million population. Although Netherlands won seven gold medals, while Australia had almost twice as many 13 gold medals as Netherlands, Australia's population was only 10 million more than Netherlands.
The host country, France, ranked third, with one gold medal per 5 million people. Although France has surpassed Australia in total medals, its per capita medal ranking has fallen relatively due to its population more than twice that of Australia.
Although the sports powerhouse United States tops the medal table, it has slipped to seventh place in terms of medals per capita, winning only one medal per 5 million people.
China, on the other hand, ranked last, with only one medal per 27 million people. (It is clear that the brother who invented this ranking forgot about India, the most populous country)
Although Chinese athletes have won 21 gold medals and a total of 53 medals, the number of medals per capita is low due to its large population of 1.42 billion.
To match Australia's medal per capita, China would need to win about 1,375 more medals, more than the total number of medals at any one Olympics.
The list only counts the top 10 countries in the medal table, with New Zealand currently ranked 12th.
New Zealand has won three gold medals to date for its 5.2 million citizens. If New Zealand were included, they would have surpassed Australia with 1.8 medals per million.
In addition, some small countries like Saint Lucia have also performed well in terms of per capita performance.
The country has a population of only 179,000 people, but with athlete Julien Alfred winning the country's first Olympic medal in history on Saturday, they technically have an extraordinary five gold medals per million.
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