{"id":1323,"date":"2004-08-30T09:11:18","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T14:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/gdp-per-athens-2004-summer-olympiad-medal\/"},"modified":"2004-08-30T09:11:18","modified_gmt":"2004-08-30T14:11:18","slug":"gdp-per-athens-2004-summer-olympiad-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/gdp-per-athens-2004-summer-olympiad-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"gdp per athens 2004 summer olympiad medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>first,  i want to congratulate all the olympians before i spend a few minutes dissecting their event.  so,  congratulations olympians, and thank you to greece for hosting.<\/p>\n<p>a while ago, i ran into the australian bureau of statistics&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/abs.gov.au\/Ausstats\/abs@.nsf\/57a31759b55dc970ca2568a1002477b6\/be9f47591541e29eca256ef40004f25a!OpenDocument\">medal count per population<\/a> table.  they&#8217;ve updated it with the final tallies, and it&#8217;s an interesting perspective on the olympics.  it also gave me a crazy idea to go another direction.  i don&#8217;t pretend to have the resources of the abs, but i do have a spreadsheet application and a web browser, so what i&#8217;ve done is combine the 1999 gross domestic product data (which seems to be the last year for which pretty much every country is represented) with the official medal tally from the 2004 athens summer games.  doing that gives me a &#8220;gdp per medal&#8221; figure that looks something like this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogbody\">\n<hr>\n<p><TABLE><br \/>\n<TR> <TD><br \/>\nRank<\/TD><TD><br \/>\nNOC<\/TD><TD><br \/>\nNOC Name<\/TD><TD><br \/>\nGold<\/TD><TD><br \/>\nSilver<\/TD><TD><br \/>\nBronze<\/TD><TD><br \/>\nTot.<\/TD><TD><\/TD> <TD><br \/>\nAggregate Medal Value<\/TD><TD><\/TD> <TD><br \/>\n1999 GDP<\/TD><TD><\/TD> <TD><br \/>\nGDP per Gold<\/TD><TD><br \/>\nGDP per Aggregate<\/TD> <\/TR><br \/>\n<TR>  <\/TR><br \/>\n<TR>  <\/TR><br \/>\n<TR> <TD><br \/>\n4<\/TD><TD><br \/>\nGEO<\/TD><TD><br \/>\nGeorgia<\/TD><TD><br \/>\n2<\/TD><TD><br \/>\n2<\/TD><TD><br \/>\n0<\/TD><TD><br \/>\n4<\/TD><TD><\/TD> <TD><br \/>\n10<\/TD><TD><\/TD> <TD><br \/>\n2.74<\/TD><TD><\/TD> <TD><br \/>\n1.37<\/TD><TD><br \/>\n0.27<\/TD> <\/TR><br \/>\n<TR> <TD><br \/>\n5<\/TD><TD><br \/>\nBLR<\/TD><TD><br \/>\nBelarus<\/TD><TD><br \/>\n2<\/TD><TD><br \/>\n6<\/TD><TD><br \/>\n7<\/TD><TD><br \/>\n15<\/TD><TD><\/TD> <TD><br \/>\n25<\/TD><TD><\/TD> <TD><br \/>\n11.56<\/TD><TD><\/TD> <TD><br \/>\n5.78<\/TD><TD><br \/>\n0.46<\/TD> <\/TR><br \/>\n<TR> <TD><br \/>\n6<\/TD><TD><br \/>\nETH<\/TD><TD><br \/>\nEthiopia<\/TD><TD><br \/>\n2<\/TD><TD><br \/>\n3<\/TD><TD><br \/>\n2<\/TD><TD><br \/>\n7<\/TD><TD><\/TD> <TD><br \/>\n14<\/TD><TD><\/TD> <TD><br \/>\n6.54<\/TD><TD><\/TD> <TD><br \/>\n3.27<\/TD><TD><br \/>\n0.47<\/TD> <\/TR><br \/>\n<TR> <TD><br \/>\n7<\/TD><TD><br \/>\nAZE<\/TD><TD><br \/>\nAzerbaijan<\/TD><TD><br \/>\n1<\/TD><TD><br \/>\n0<\/TD><TD><br 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R. 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