Charlotte MacDonald
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first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2025
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If you go to our website, bbc.co.uk slash more or less, you'll find our analysis of the final medal table.
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Well, big overachievers include Team GB, China, the US, Jamaica and Australia...
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Big underachievers are India, Brazil, Indonesia, Pakistan and Nigeria.
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More or Less was presented by Tim Harford, the Financial Times undercover economist.
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The producer is Richard Knight.
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More or Less is made in association with The Open University.
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It's ticking along nicely, thanks.
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Next week, we're going to tell you how those predictions have worked out to see which countries have punched below or above their weight.
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But we've also had a number of emails asking which countries overachieved if you just factor in population.
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So as a little taster for next week, I've had a look at the total number of medals which have been won so far.
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Everyone knows Team GB has been doing well, and the UK's medal tally looks more impressive when you consider that for every 10 million in the population, we've got almost 8.5 medals.
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France has a similar population to us, and they've only got 4.5 medals per 10 million.
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But there are 16 other countries which are doing more impressively per head of population.
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Top of the list is Grenada, which only has one medal, but it also has a tiny population of just 100,000 people.
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If it had a population of 10 million, it would have the equivalent of 95.5 medals.
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Well, the top countries which fit that are Jamaica, home of Usain Bolt, which has 33 medals per 10 million, while New Zealand has 23 medals per 10 million.
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And what about the big players?
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Well, the US, which has won the most medals of any country, doesn't rank as well if you look at its population.
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It has roughly five times as many people as Britain, but it has only three medals for every 10 million people.
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China does even worse on this scale and gets just over half a medal per 10 million people.
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