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Population numbers vs no. of Olympic athletes

748 sats \ 12 comments \ @cryotosensei 28 Jul charts_and_numbers

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Germany has the second largest participating contingent, even though it has the second lowest population among the top 20 nations with the most number of citizens.

I actually didn’t know that Germany is such a formidable sporting house.

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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @ACYK 28 Jul

Sorted by Participants Per Million (I.e. pasting this photo into ChatGPT and asking for a markdown table sorted by PPM)

Rank	Country	Population (Approx.)	Participants	PPM
19	Germany	83 Million	428	5.16
12	Japan	121 Million	403	3.33
3	United States	341 Million	592	1.74
14	Egypt	114 Million	148	1.30
7	Brazil	217 Million	274	1.26
18	Turkey	86 Million	102	1.19
10	Mexico	129.4 Million	107	0.83
20	Thailand	71 Million	51	0.72
17	Iran	89 Million	40	0.45
6	Nigeria	229 Million	88	0.38
2	China	1.42 Billion	388	0.27
11	Ethiopia	129 Million	34	0.26
13	Philippines	118 Million	22	0.19
16	Vietnam	99 Million	16	0.16
4	Indonesia	279 Million	29	0.10
1	India	1.44 Billion	117	0.08
15	DR Congo	105 Million	6	0.06
5	Pakistan	245 Million	7	0.03
8	Bangladesh	174 Million	5	0.03
9	Russia	144 Million	NA	NA

49 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 28 Jul

One of the great sports mysteries is why the Indian sub-continent has so few athletes in most sports.

142 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 28 Jul

They are all trying to win Scripps National Spelling Bee

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 28 Jul

I've seen descriptions of what other activities they occupy themselves with, including a fixation on cricket as their sole athletic interest.

Why they're so different than the rest of the world, though, is the mystery?

49 sats \ 4 replies \ @Coinsreporter 28 Jul

Ohhh sensei! This has been already posted!

#624534

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 28 Jul

Great minds think alike, @suraz!

91 sats \ 1 reply \ @suraz 28 Jul

I am so confused about India. Billions of population but the participants they produced are so less. Maybe due to political instability. Or the government only investing on cricket and it's field.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 28 Jul

Given the prevalence of Spelling Bee champs n IT wizards in India, I have the impression that many Indians don’t think of sports as a viable career option

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 28 Jul

Yes, this is reasonable.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Athena 28 Jul

It's really looking very bad for some highly populated countries. May be they need to work on their sports infra!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi 28 Jul

It pains me always to look at South East Asia and not finding so many sportspersons from there. India is growing in it also but needs to look beyond Cricket's popularity.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 28 Jul

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