Simply Seeking Medals?Today we try to make sense of the human condition from the mind of a stuck pig. Go first to this cool website -- [clik HERE: A Map of Olympic Medals, New York Times, Aug 4, 2008]
After you have your fun over there, go to the population chart site [HERE] to see the full explanation. The important chart is shown below.
Remember famed reader, it is only two more days till Beijing Orympics says Syonara to its guests. At this point in the Games, there is a medal count easily accessible on satellite and internet showing each country's winnings in gold/siver/bronze.
The USA has a total of 102 medals with an almost even spread of 31 gold, 36 silver and 35 bronze, plus or minus. This total will change over the weekend. Sunday Night the big "So long and thanks for all the medals," from Beijing will end the medal chase till 2012, when it resumes in London.
This is the population spread of the world's largest countries. [Source: clik HERE]
TOP TEN COUNTRIES WITH THE HIGHEST POPULATION | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Country | Population | % of World | Population | Expected Pop. |
| 1 | 1,321,851,888 | 20.0 % | 1.1 % | 1,470,468,924 | |
| 2 | 1,129,866,154 | 17.2 % | 1.7 % | 1,619,582,271 | |
| 3 | 301,139,947 | 4.6 % | 0.8 % | 403,943,147 | |
| 4 | 234,693,997 | 3.4 % | 1.8 % | 337,807,011 | |
| 5 | 190,010,647 | 2.8 % | 1.4 % | 206,751,477 | |
| 6 | 164,741,924 | 2.6 % | 2.6 % | 267,813,495 | |
| 7 | 150,448,339 | 2.5 % | 2.6 % | 205,093,861 | |
| 8 | 141,377,752 | 2.2 % | 0.5 % | 118,233,243 | |
| 9 | 135,031,164 | 2.1 % | 1.1 % | 205,093,861 | |
| 10 | 128,646,345 | 2.0 % | 0.1 % | 101,228,471 | |
| TOP TEN Countries | 3,896,595,306 | 59.0 % | - | 5,034,508,670 | |
| Rest of the World | 2,710,374,860 | 41.0 % | - | 4,049,986,735 | |
| TOTAL World Population | 6,606,970,166 | 100.0 % | 1.1 % | 9,084,495,405 | |
| NOTES: (1) Top 10 Most Populated Countries of the World table was updated on January 11, 2008. (2) Detailed data for individual countries may be found clicking on each country name. (3) Demographic ( population ) numbers are based on the data from the US Census Bureau. The China population data is for the mainland only. (4) The 2050 World Population source is the US Census Bureau. (5) Data from the Internet World Stats site may be cited, giving due credit and establishing an active link back to InternetWorldStats.com. (6) For definitions and navigation help, see the Site Surfing Guide. | |||||
Then you Mosey over to the Medal Tally site: HERE [clik for "Overall Medal Standings"]
At this time there are 839 total possible medals, gold, silver and bronze, given out. Each country will have a percentile of "Medallions" when it all ends. This is used to find how many people in that country could have possibly earned a medal at the Olympics. These numbers begin to stagger the mind of mortals like us at MooPig Wisdom Head-Quarters!
Are you a Capita? Well the governances of the human species thinks you are. This
gold medal that comes home with a teenager is worth so much in conspicuous material consumption that the carbon footprint must be akin to: Sasquatch, who by the way turned out once again to be a rubber suit in a freezer box Hoax. *groan*SUMMARY
USA = 102 medals [Aug 22, 2008] is 12% of total 839 possible
USA = 4.6% world population 2008
USA = 1 "Gold/Silver/or Bronze" Medal per 2,952,352 persons
USA = almost the same as its placement in 2004 Athens Olympics
2 comments:
i like your perspectives on medals per capita or GDP. A lot of discussion on the web on how medals should be calculated. Found this nice little interactive chart widget which illustrates your points in nice charts: http://www.youcalc.com/apps/1219242654520
Hey, thanks for dropping by, Anony-Moose...
I took your advice, and that is a totally hep little widg't... I successfully posted it to my blogger above for Aug 24.
Most attachments are not as easy to afix... very slick.
Catch you on the rebound... I guess?
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