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Average number of medals won per capita at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2024 (per one million inhabitants)

Country/International Olympic Committee	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bahamas	19.85	4.96	14.89
Hungary	19.41	16.71	18.89
Finland	17.96	15.12	21.16
Bermuda	15.49	0	15.49
Dominica	15.18	0	0
Sweden	14.26	16.89	17.08
New Zealand****	12.19	7.62	10.66
Norway	11.38	9.25	9.25
Jamaica	9.52	13.75	9.52
East Germany*	9.5	8.01	7.88
Grenada	8.52	8.52	25.57
Bulgaria	8.49	13.25	12.66
Denmark	8.33	13.33	13.99
Cuba	7.95	6.58	8.32
Estonia	7.44	6.7	12.65
Australia****	6.86	7.16	8.45
Switzerland	6.02	9.03	8.7
Netherlands	6	6.05	7.3
Saint Lucia	5.55	5.55	0
Romania	4.92	5.39	6.56
Slovenia	4.72	4.72	5.2
Great Britain	4.3	4.86	4.95
Croatia	4.16	3.9	4.42
Belgium	3.91	4.68	5.44
Italy	3.85	3.4	3.85
Greece	3.62	4.53	4.73
France	3.57	4.19	4.44
Georgia	3.42	3.94	4.99
United States	3.17	2.53	2.25
Czechoslovakia*	3.14	3.14	2.88
Germany***	2.87	3.24	3.45
Ireland	2.83	1.88	3.2
Bahrain	2.43	1.83	0.61
Austria	2.3	3.73	4.83
Latvia	2.16	5.93	3.24
Fiji	2.14	1.07	1.07
Lithuania	2.12	3.18	5.3
South Korea	2.11	1.94	2.13
Czechia	2.07	1.98	2.73
Trinidad and Tobago	1.99	3.31	7.28
Canada	1.99	2.87	3.94
Poland	1.91	2.44	3.72
Slovakia	1.83	2.56	1.64
Kosovo	1.66	0.55	0.55
Suriname	1.56	0	1.56
Japan	1.54	1.32	1.55
Soviet Union* **	1.51	1.23	1.12
Luxembourg	1.47	1.47	0
Belarus	1.44	3.33	4.67
Serbia	1.35	1.2	1.79
Yugoslavia*	1.21	1.33	1.33
Spain	1.11	1.59	1.17
Russia	1.03	0.87	1.06
Ukraine	0.97	1.05	1.85
West Germany*	0.89	1.06	1.28
Azerbaijan	0.87	1.54	2.98
Kazakhstan	0.77	1.15	1.82
Armenia	0.68	3.73	3.05
Kenya	0.68	0.76	0.71
Qatar	0.64	0.32	1.93
Puerto Rico	0.62	0.62	2.47
North Korea	0.6	0.68	0.98
Uruguay	0.59	0.59	1.77
Portugal	0.58	1.06	1.44
Mongolia	0.57	3.41	4.83
Hong Kong	0.54	0.41	0.81
Tunisia	0.49	0.32	0.65
Uzbekistan	0.49	0.22	0.62
Argentina	0.48	0.59	0.68
Turkey	0.47	0.33	0.48
South Africa	0.43	0.56	0.48
Israel	0.42	0.63	1.05
Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)	0.39	0.48	1
Botswana	0.39	0.78	0.39
Dominican Republic	0.35	0.43	0.52
Iran	0.29	0.31	0.35
Panama	0.22	0.22	0.44
Ecuador	0.22	0.22	0.11
Morocco	0.21	0.13	0.34
China	0.21	0.16	0.14
Brazil	0.19	0.23	0.38
Costa Rica	0.19	0.19	0.39
Zimbabwe	0.18	0.24	0.06
Ethiopia	0.18	0.11	0.17
Singapore	0.17	0.34	0.51
Chile	0.15	0.4	0.2
Thailand	0.15	0.15	0.27
Algeria	0.15	0.08	0.19
Venezuela	0.11	0.25	0.32
Mexico	0.1	0.2	0.29
Uganda	0.1	0.1	0.06
Cameroon	0.1	0.03	0.07
Colombia	0.09	0.3	0.3
Tajikistan	0.09	0.09	0.46
Jordan	0.09	0.17	0.09
United Arab Emirates	0.09	0	0.09
Egypt	0.08	0.1	0.17
Burundi	0.07	0.07	0
Guatemala	0.05	0.05	0.05
Syria	0.04	0.04	0.08
Philippines	0.03	0.04	0.09
Peru	0.03	0.09	0.03
Ivory Coast	0.03	0.03	0.09
Indonesia	0.03	0.05	0.06
Mozambique	0.03	0	0.03
Pakistan	0.02	0.01	0.02
Nigeria	0.01	0.05	0.05
Vietnam	0.01	0.03	0
India	0.01	0.01	0.01
San Marino	0	29.79	59.57
Iceland	0	5.02	5.02
Tonga	0	9.64	0
Samoa	0	4.56	0
Barbados	0	0	3.54
Moldova	0	1	2.34
Cabo Verde	0	0	1.9
Kyrgyzstan	0	0.69	1.1
Namibia	0	1.62	0
Montenegro	0	1.58	0
Cyprus	0	1.46	0
Guyana	0	0	1.2
North Macedonia	0	0.55	0.55
Djibouti	0	0	0.84
Mauritius	0	0	0.79
Albania	0	0	0.72
Lebanon	0	0.34	0.34
Kuwait	0	0	0.6
Malaysia	0	0.22	0.19
Gabon	0	0.39	0
Eritrea	0	0	0.28
Haiti	0	0.08	0.08
Zambia	0	0.05	0.09
Paraguay	0	0.14	0
Ghana	0	0.03	0.11
Turkmenistan	0	0.13	0
Saudi Arabia	0	0.06	0.06
Togo	0	0	0.1
Sri Lanka	0	0.09	0
Niger	0	0.04	0.04
Afghanistan	0	0	0.05
Senegal	0	0.05	0
Burkina Faso	0	0	0.04
Tanzania	0	0.03	0
Sudan	0	0.02	0
Iraq	0	0	0.02

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Release date

August 2024

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

1896 to 2024

Special properties

countries ranked by color of medals and not overall medal tally

Supplementary notes

This data was collected using the official Olympic.org site, as well as a spreadsheet from the Guardian that includes data from 1896-2008 (), and data was compared with that from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several news outlets were used to update the table when medals were reassigned (i.e. for doping offenses).

*The population data used in the calculations comes from estimates for the year 2025, apart from the following countries:
Soviet Union - 290.938 million (1990)
East Germany - 16.11 million (1990)
West Germany - 63.25 million (1990)
Yugoslavia - 23.23 million (1991)
Czechoslovakia - 15.6 million (1993)

**Includes medals from the Unified Team in the 1992 Olympics; made up of all athletes from former-Soviet countries, excluding the Baltic States. Does not include medals won by Russia or the Russian Empire.

***Includes medals from the united German teams of the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics, but does not include medals from East Germany or West Germany, whose medals are included in separate entries.

****Does not include medals won by athletes representing the Russian Olympic Committee in 2020.

Citation formats

Although the United States led the all-time Summer Olympics medal table, it was San Marino that had the highest medal count per capita as of 2024. With one silver and two bronze medals, and a population of fewer than 35,000 people, San Marino had won 89.36 medals per million people. When it came to gold medals, however, The Bahamas took the top spot, with 19.85 golds per million inhabitants.

Olympic tradition and lower populations in the top ten

With over 500 total medals, Hungary is the most successful nation to have never hosted the Summer Olympics. Unlike the Bahamas or Finland, Hungary's medal haul has been consistently high throughout Olympic history. Hungary has won a large proportion of its medals in fencing, swimming and canoeing events, and has excelled in pentathlon and water polo events. When it comes to gold medals per capita, Hungary was in second place as of 2024 with 19.41 medals per one million inhabitants. In addition to Finland, other Nordic countries have performed well at the Olympics on a per capita basis, as their high rate of participation over time and relatively low populations means that three of the top ten spots on this list are taken by Scandinavian countries.

U.S., Soviet Union and China fall behind

As mentioned previously, countries who have won the most medals overall do not have always the highest per-capita totals. For example, China had the third-most gold medals of all time, but, as China has the highest population in the world, this translates to just 0.21 golds per million people. The U.S. has won a total of 3.17 golds and nearly eight total medals per million people, while the Soviet Union won fewer than four medals per million people, based on its population in 1990.