Going off of wiki's latest population numbers and 2024 medal counts and ignoring the "Refugee Olympic Team" or "Individual Neutral Athletes." Top 5 would be:
Any medal:
Grenada: 2 medals / 112k people
Dominica: 1 medal / 67k people
Saint Lucia: 2 medals / 184k people
New Zealand: 20 medals / 5.3m people
Bahrain: 4 medals / 1.6m people
Australia, 9th.
Golds only:
Dominica: 1 gold / 67k people
Saint Lucia: 2 golds / 184k people
New Zealand: 10 golds / 5.3m people
Bahrain: 2 golds / 1.6m people
Slovenia: 2 golds / 2.1m people
Australia, 10th.
Fun fact: India beats Pakistan in per-capital medals. 6 medals / 1.4b vs. 1 medal / 241m, but Pakistan has infinitely more gold medals.
Interesting question.
Going off of wiki's latest population numbers and 2024 medal counts and ignoring the "Refugee Olympic Team" or "Individual Neutral Athletes." Top 5 would be:
Any medal:
Australia, 9th.
Golds only:
Australia, 10th.
Fun fact: India beats Pakistan in per-capital medals. 6 medals / 1.4b vs. 1 medal / 241m, but Pakistan has infinitely more gold medals.
Damn New Zealand looks impressive.
They absolutely killed it this Olympics. Even I, as an Australian, have to give them that.
They completely smashed us in canoe sprint, rugby and rowing, and the men’s high jump of course. And we did roughly even in track cycling.
They’re doing phenomenal for a less-wealthy, less-populated country, compared to Aus…
Maybe you guys need to do more land acknowledgment ceremonies?
I agree. With one or two medals you could be looking at a statistical anomaly, but New Zealand's right up there with them.