Originally Posted by woj

per capita is often a good way to compare countries but not in this case... higher population only marginally increases chances of winning, so countries with high population are at a disadvantage look at for example:

75 China 70 1,371,220,000 19,588,857
85 India 2 1,311,050,527 655,525,263

China or India wouldn't make it to the top 10 even if they won pretty much every single medal available, which clearly is not possible....