2012 Summer Olympics: GDP Adjusted Performance Ranking

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games being held in London and other parts of the UK are finally under way, which gives us the opportunity for a little more fun with a GDP adjusted national performance ranking based on the official medals table. Our GDP adjusted ranking shown below is intended to level the playing field between large wealthy nations and smaller less wealthy ones. The ranking algorithm assesses the value of the medals won and then adjusts this value according to the square root of national GDP, a factor that we find achieves the most competitive ranking. With the traditional medals table you have a pretty safe bet as to which nation is going to come top but with our GDP adjusted ranking almost any nation could win. Check here as the games progress to see how well your nation is performing.

(You can also view our 2008 Olympics GDP Adjusted Ranking to see how nations fared four years ago)

2012 Summer Olympics: GDP Adjusted Ranking

based on the final medals table, 2012/08/13

			Rank	GDP	Medals	Medals Won
Rank		Nation	Pts	Factor	Value	G	S	B
1		Jamaica	524	0.14	76	4	4	4
2		Grenada	379	0.03	12	1	0	0
3		Great Britain	315	1.49	471	29	17	19
4		Russia	287	1.68	482	24	26	32
5		Hungary	280	0.45	126	8	4	5
6		North Korea	260	0.20	52	4	0	2
7		Cuba	258	0.34	87	5	3	6
8		New Zealand	254	0.36	92	6	2	5
9		Kazakhstan	223	0.44	99	7	1	5
10		Georgia	222	0.15	33	1	3	3
11		Kenya	210	0.26	54	2	4	5
12		Ukraine	207	0.55	115	6	5	9
13		Australia	202	0.93	188	7	16	12
14		China	200	3.19	637	38	27	23
15		USA	198	3.82	755	46	29	29
16		South Korea	176	1.19	210	13	8	7
17		Belarus	161	0.37	59	2	5	5
18		Ethiopia	160	0.29	47	3	1	3
19		Azerbaijan	154	0.30	46	2	2	6
20		Croatia	153	0.29	45	3	1	2
21		Mongolia	153	0.10	16	0	2	3
22		Germany	146	1.74	255	11	19	14
23		France	142	1.48	211	11	11	12
24		Netherlands	141	0.84	118	6	6	8
25		Lithuania	135	0.24	33	2	1	2
26		Czech Rep.	134	0.52	69	4	3	3
27		Bahamas	126	0.09	12	1	0	0
28		Italy	118	1.38	163	8	9	11
29		Denmark	107	0.47	50	2	4	3
30		Trinidad&Tobago	98	0.18	18	1	0	3
31		Romania	96	0.55	53	2	5	2
32		Japan	91	2.07	188	7	14	17
33		Slovenia	88	0.24	21	1	1	2
34		Iran	86	0.92	79	4	5	3
35		Spain	77	1.22	94	3	10	4
36		Latvia	73	0.19	14	1	0	1
37		Serbia	72	0.29	21	1	1	2
38		Armenia	69	0.13	9	0	1	2
39		South Africa	66	0.73	48	3	2	1
40		Tunisia	63	0.30	19	1	1	1
41		Sweden	63	0.60	38	1	4	3
42		Uzbekistan	61	0.29	18	1	0	3
43		Norway	59	0.53	31	2	1	1
44		Uganda	59	0.20	12	1	0	0
45		Switzerland	56	0.60	34	2	2	0
46		Dominican Rep.	56	0.30	17	1	1	0
47		Montenegro	56	0.09	5	0	1	0
48		Ireland	55	0.42	23	1	1	3
49		Brazil	53	1.48	79	3	5	9
50		Poland	53	0.87	46	2	2	6
51		Canada	53	1.15	61	1	5	12
52		Colombia	53	0.66	35	1	3	4
53		Estonia	43	0.16	7	0	1	1
54		Moldova	38	0.10	4	0	0	2
55		Turkey	34	1.06	36	2	2	1
56		Gabon	34	0.15	5	0	1	0
57		Cyprus	32	0.16	5	0	1	0
58		Slovakia	31	0.36	11	0	1	3
59		Botswana	30	0.17	5	0	1	0
60		Puerto Rico	27	0.25	7	0	1	1
61		Argentina	26	0.80	21	1	1	2
62		Mexico	26	1.28	33	1	3	3
63		Algeria	22	0.54	12	1	0	0
64		Bulgaria	22	0.32	7	0	1	1
65		Finland	20	0.44	9	0	1	2
66		Venezuela	20	0.59	12	1	0	0
67		Guatemala	19	0.26	5	0	1	0
68		Tajikistan	16	0.12	2	0	0	1
69		Thailand	16	0.77	12	0	2	1
70		Egypt	14	0.71	10	0	2	0
71		Belgium	14	0.64	9	0	1	2
72		Bahrain	12	0.16	2	0	0	1
73		Afghanistan	11	0.18	2	0	0	1
74		Qatar	11	0.36	4	0	0	2
75		Malaysia	11	0.65	7	0	1	1
76		Portugal	10	0.52	5	0	1	0
77		India	9	2.05	18	0	2	4
78		Taiwan	7	0.94	7	0	1	1
79		Singapore	7	0.54	4	0	0	2
80		Greece	7	0.56	4	0	0	2
81		Indonesia	7	1.02	7	0	1	1
82		Kuwait	6	0.36	2	0	0	1
83		Morocco	5	0.39	2	0	0	1
84		Hong Kong	3	0.57	2	0	0	1
85		Saudi Arabia	3	0.79	2	0	0	1