Economy
Who's Really Ahead in Rio?
Small countries rise to the top when we control for population, GDP, and size of Olympic delegation.
More than a week into the Rio Games, the USA certainly looks like the big winner. As of Sunday night the American team had 69 medals, far ahead of China with 45, Great Britain with 38, and Russia with 30.
Last week CityLab’s Kriston Capps highlighted figures from the site Medals Per Capita to show how medal counts can be interpreted differently depending on how you measure them. Today, we introduce our own, slightly different medal tracker to gauge how countries perform across several key metrics.