Top 10 Countries by Summer Olympic Medals (1896-2016) 

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We need the winter ones too

Because I know then Canada would do better

@@jonathanwieler8315 yeah personally I can’t wait for them to win silver in the next Winter Olympics for hockey

@@connorlanglinais2751 at first I thought, why not gold? But then I realized silver is the highest

Just it doesn’t have any countries, so Soviet Union’s still alive

Well, sure, since their athletes were so doped up... 😆

Same goes for East Germany 😂

@@stevengalloway8052 so were American.

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 - And Americans caught and punished them, too. They didn't get to keep their medals, and lost their endorsements, enduring shame and humiliation. (Lance Armstrong) Haven't heard about ex-Soviets and East Germans giving back THEIR medals. Have you? 🤨

There is no Chad

@@jack-ln9nu chad is a country he meant

@@aboi9865 Chad Means MadLad

Sweden too with similar population.

No, you just have to stop USA from using doping

You just have to wait for the ussr to fall

@@zeqirzeqiri1216 USSR is already gone/collapsed almost 3 decades ago.

@@karoldettlaff5345 you don't know what you are talking...

@@karoldettlaff5345 firstly,stop your country of using dope and then you can talk about the others.

Well the threat of not getting a medal is probably execution...

India is not a "sporty" nation and there is nothing wrong in that 😉😉

@@ulikemyname6744 a wannabe superpower that isn't into athleticism and sports? lol do you guys just play a single sport?

@@thanos8948 I'm not Indian but there is nothing wrong in not being large in sports. You can be a powerful nation even if you don't like sports

@@warwolf6862 source?

"never will be"? Why do you say that?

@@kaibrattan3568 why? They have had 49 years to do it. They can't. India has no economy to expand. They can't support their people let alone have anything to sell to the world. Aside from cheap labour in some low wage industries, and an abundance of cheap labour, they have nothing. Sorry but that's the truth.

@@qualityman1965 China was in a similar spot only 20 years ago. Nations change, economies grow. To say India will never be on the top ten betrays a lack of imagination.

@@kaibrattan3568 indian government cant be compared to china's fast effective government

@@kaibrattan3568 well, 20 years ago, China won 28 golds, 16 silvers and 15 bronzes in Sydney, which is higher than all medals India won in their entire Olympics history combined. And China only came to participate in olympics since 1984, I don’t see India will catch up with China or follows China’s path in the near future.

No we can't argue because in ussr there were athletes from different S.R. Like Ukraine or lithuania.

Uh no East germany were all on drugs like the soviets

Except Ukraine was part of Russia even before the birth of USSR. (No I'm not Russian)

@@jomo3564 sadly, yes - we were occupied by the Russian Empire and then the Soviet Union

@@Genevasplaytime and like the americans

I dont see what GDP has to do with Olympic medals but ok

Cuz Hungarian people are descendants of Hun people ( East Asian group )

@springsod poor? When, not according to GDP per capita.

how did you find connection between GDP and Olympic medals? Japan etc I can't see it. if you look the all time football rankings Sweden and Hungary are in the top 10 too

Sweden, Ukraine, Japan, south Korea, Greece, Serbia, Australia, are good too

This isn’t mentioned enough. IT’s appreciative 👍🏽

And hardly any shout-outs. It’s lonely at the top 😆

@@N.A525 Truly suffering from success...😔

Their independent now.

​@@arthurchicagoyour country what? 😂

It's true...americans are a bunch of fat people! Super fat indeed!!!!! Forget the olympics...you are really too fat, the most obese in the world !!! I'm sorry but it's the hard truth!!!😎🇮🇹

They can’t beat us so they use goofy insults

@@Jayfromthe202 yessir! I don’t care what anyone says I will always be proud to live in the strongest country in the world with the best athletes and dominance in popular culture 🇺🇸

Actually accessibility is a major benifit to competing and winning medals. When the games are held in a nearby country more participants can enter and thus win medals. That's the real host advantage.

The US has led the world in the medal count ever since Atlanta ‘96.

@@SonofTuscon99 Not in Beijing 2008 though.

@@icepick2407 we had 110, the next closest had 100 in Beijing

Nope

Yes, let's gooo! :3

Same with sweden, hungary as well. Pretty sure those are the 3 countries with most summer olympics medals per capita (which is a more fair way to compare it)

@@arthurchicago why isn't the country with the highest population on top then? Use logic.

​@@blondjoncrap logic America and most of the European countries took the lead in medal count during 20th century India was under colonial looters till 1947, and when they left India, it was one of the poorest nation in the world and there was no infrastructure to support sport activities, our priority was to feed our big population, provide education and secure our borders from Pakistan and China, Also, America and Europe have better sports infrastructure

@@legendslog3911 so my point still stands. What I said is true. Sorry you are triggered by it 😘

@@blondjon I'm not triggered by it, just wondering about your ignorance

40,000 BCE - 2021 *

If the author does like in this video, it presents a population of something like 100 billion people in 2021 (accumulated)

Blame Jimmy Carter for killing all those Olympic dreams

I think for the Winter Olympics this year the US placed 4th can’t remember

Imagine how many doped athletes US have had too.. and there was significantly higher number of us medals when they were hosts themselves.. hmm.. 😏

@@MrNorberg let’s get those journalists working on those USA doping scandals amirite. If there was a systemic doping system, then it would have come out by now the same way it did for the Russians and we don’t even threaten our athletes to keep quiet.

@@MrNorberg Host countries always have higher medal counts

also, when the video started the ussr hadn't been existing so the others got a 24 years headstart

I also thought it was odd to see the Russia listed as the Soviet Union after 91' not to mention East Germany after 1990. What's up with that Ranking Charts?

There was also rampant doping in the Soviet Union, giving them an unfair advantage.

@@ryufireblade as if the us hadn't doped its athletes lol

@@elias6425 What country hasn't doped? Maybe Jamaica (not including marijuana). That was one heck of a bobsled team.

In 2022.

Can't wait for Norway to be on top hehe

when the ussr just started to exist the us already had a headstart of over 500 medals so it wasn't a large gap between #1 and #2

Why,? It's true Americans are arrogant ,that's cuz they have strong military and others

@@elias6425 No about 1000 medals. The USSR began to participate in the Olympics only in 1952.

This machine has been going well since 1904😆👍🏽🇺🇸🎉 congratulations to all though

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Medals of East Germany should be added up with Germany‘s after 1990 tbh

​@@dissect123 Nope. Apples and oranges. Learn about the rules capping how many athletes nations can send, and check out how many more combined medals separate Germanys won in 1988 versus the unified team in 1992. For example, if each US state was allowed to field its own team America's combined medals would skyrocket.

@@krl97a Hard to believe that someone can misunderstand a simple sentence like that. Probs to your idiocy. Obviously the US functions as a single state and always has whereas the two Germany states were unified. So your comment completely misses the point.

​@@dissect123 LOL! No you missed the point, moron. You said East Germany's medals should be added to Germany's after 1990, despite East Germany being a separate state when it existed, with its own full sized Olympic team. My point was that being a separate state inflated its medal count. Lumping West/East Germany's medals together with a unified Germany's would be apples and oranges.

@@krl97a there are a lot of lists that combine East and West Germany. And on the other side the teams of East and west Germany had not much more athletes than the unified Germany has today

Swivel-eyed loons...?

@@jackryan702 the tin foil hat brigade. Brexiteers.....

@@michellebrown4903 ah I see now

​@@michellebrown4903 You clearly know very little about Geopolitics if you think Brexit is all about "tin foil" hats.

@@goosenuggets9693 l do know that the country has been harmed by this.

1.3 billion+ population are you surprise? 😂

@@simpleone4914 yeap I am surprised coz India is also densely populated but it isn't in list so skill of player matters not population 😊

How about dividing the amount of medals China has vs it’s population lol .000036? (Joking) but if you feel so inclined please do the math

Not just China also India they have billion population..

@@mikenick9163 You can't do that because population has been growing yoy.

@@helendefensor5057 yes but India is not very competitive in the Olympics you do not usually see them in the top three or four or even 10

@@kirakira9906 actually you can do it you just check to see what the estimated population of China was in the year that they won the medals and divided by how many medals they won it would be far less than 1% trust me

Yes! 💪🇭🇺❤🤍💚🇭🇺

Most likely because USSR was comprised of many different nations, thus adding Ukrainian, Belorussian, and other’s metal counts towards Russia if it changed.

Bc USSR medals are counted for USSR not Russia, Russia have it own count

@@jjmantecon628 your answer is the best explanation...yes, MANY countries like Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia,Estonia, etc. contributed to the Soviet Union...after 1991, these became separate countries and Russia is a different category all by themselves rather than having a multitude of nations oppressed to perform for the " glory of the motherland " 🤣🤣🤣...in the end the Evil Empire meet their demise....bankruptcy followed by countries gaining their independence.....goodbye Comrade Mfers 🤣🤣🤣

Im from australia and the ppl here are hella laid back, the aussies dont study all they do is play sports their entire life so i guess the chart makes sense

Competitive natural sporty lot

​@@elmothemilkman99amd they have six wins in 🏏 🏆

I would like to see top 20

Yes and if we sum East and West Germany medals, the result is 1024 so Germany would be 2nd.

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This machine has been going since 1904. A country can’t repeat its ways. We are different in what we do & it reflects it.

Yet per head of population, the UK out performs the USA easily! Just read up on the stats....

@@brythonicman3267 Because the entries are capped for events. Bermuda pop. is 70k, and they have 1 medal. China would have to win like 23,000 medals to equal that, which is more then all medals, ever, combined. If you're using per population, and UK is the base, then UK gets 1 basketball entry, and the US would get 5 teams entered. Sound fair now?

@@95mushroom I never it was unfair, but even taking the caps per event into account, Britain still outperforms the US per head of population. It also outperforms most other countries but not all i.e. New Zealand who outperform nearly all countries, as an example Ireland who have the same population as NZ. Maybe it's something to do with the gene stock 😉

This video differentiates between East and west Germany, which doesn’t really make sense anymore. Germany should be 2nd or 3rd depending on what medals you are counting for Russia.

@@schwarzer0se463 yes, if you count all former Soviet territories then Russia is clearly second.

it is, this chart is completely biased. only the USA has more gold medals than Germany and in total germany is third when it comes to summer games.

@Jackson Spieth in hard Power terms yes, but in soft power terms nothing can compete in Europe with Germany and the UK lost a lot of soft power during brexit.

@Jackson Spieth the UK had a very advantageous position with the special US relationship it brought to the EU and also with its position in the common wealth. The UK was always able to gain influence through this triangle, because they could always tell the EU, we can talk with the US or a country from the common wealth and vice versa. Now this triangle became a line with much less area so to speak. And don't get me wrong, hard power is nice, but since the nuclear age I am not sure how much conflicts will really be resolved with hard power in the future. As a German I am very sad the Britain left the EU, because in my point of view we were stronger together against some much bigger counties like China.

And USA has won the overall medal count in the last 7 Summer Olympics and the Gold Medal count in 6 of the last 7 Summer Olympics, and does so with a restriction on athletes it can send. If the 50 US states were all separate countries, the amount of athletes they'd send combined and medals they'd win combined would skyrocket

Je ne vois pas l'intérêt

Invalid since rules artificially cap how many athletes nations can send, plus there's a finite number of events. It'd be as meaningless as tracking goals per capita in a game and concluding Brazilians suck at soccer because they only beat Honduras 4-1 instead of 40-1. It's still 11 v 11 on the field and there's a time limit. Per capita comparisons are for open ended stats like GDP, not constrained ones.

@@krl97a calculating medals per capita might be in favour of the smaller countries, true, but simply counting them definitely favours the big ones. Besides it's relatively rare that one nation claims multiple medals in a single event, so sending more athletes wouldn't necessarily mean a significant increase in medals won.

@@anathielvanrycanter7696 The difference is that medal tables are counting something tangible. "Fair" or not, those medals really exist and represent events that really happened. By contrast per capita comparisons are artificial constructs that ignore Olympic rules and nature, and have no connection to reality. They're fallacious and meaningless. And yes the cap on athletes each nation can send will logically impact medals. We can see the likely empirical impact with split German teams going from a combined 142 medals in 1988 to 82 with a unified team in 1992. That may be as close to a controlled experiment as we can get. Most events don't have a slam dunk favorite and even ones that do sometimes don't turn out as expected, like McKayla Maroney on the vault in 2012 or the Australian relay team last night. The Tunisian guy who barely qualified for the final but won gold a few days ago may be an extreme example, but non-favorites winning medals is very common. Simply being at the Olympics is a big part of having a chance. That's why rules capping nations' team size exist, or else large nations that are also athletic power houses culturally and societally like the US would be even more dominant. If each US state was allowed to field its own team then America's medals would skyrocket, like Germanys but even more so.

@@krl97a I merely suggested that a per capita chart might be interesting and to that I keep. Since there are like factors of 30 or even more between the populations of some of the mentioned countries, and it seems unlikely that capping the number of athletes sent can make up for a difference that big. And about unified Germany: East Germany was a socialist country with a state-driven sport powerhouse, a system which changed to match the western standards: this might as well contribute to the decline in the total medal count of Germany.

Good question. Unlike GDP, where figures are tallied yearly, the Olympic medals a nation receives doesn’t disappear when it collapses. This is why the bar for the Soviet Union and East Germany stays even after their end in 1991 and 1990 respectively.

how about India?

Australia and Sweden and Norway epic

There is a restriction in athletes per country in many sports that disadvantages the US. I guarantee that if the 50 US states were separate countries in the Olympics, they would win way more overall medal combined than they do as the US because of this. Not to mention that there is a limited amount of events which makes it impossible for a nation like the US to win per capita. And in say soccer, Uruguay or Netherlands are probably the best per capita but Brazil is considered the best all time because they win the most. The US is the most successful sports nation in the world (in terms of Olympic, world championship and major results), and is all time (most top players, most successful in olympics, major or world championship in the sport all time) the best in baseball, basketball, track and field, swimming, lacrosse, beach volleyball, figure skating, tennis, golf, boxing, diving, shooting, rowing, snowboarding etc and is all time top 5 in ice hockey, wrestling, gymnastics, volleyball, speed skating, alpine skiing, bobsleigh, equestrian, sailing, cycling, weightlifting, archery etc. No nation comes remotely close to the US in overall sporting achievements

@@AW-zk5qb Your stats don't add up! Yes the USA does very well, but only due to its 338 million population compared to other highly developed nations. You said that if every state in the US were separate countries they would win way more overall medals combined, yes they would but so would other highly developed countries that have equally sophisticated infrastructures if they were broken up. If Britain's population of 68 million was broken down into say 4 regions competing individually (17 million) it would be exactly the same scenario and probably still out preform the USA over all on medals per head of population and Britain's hypothetical 4 teams would still out perform most of the 50 states based on past performance also, maybe with the exception of California which has well over half of Britain's entire population . Population USA 337 million - Population UK 68 million 20% the population of USA. All time medals: USA 1,061 Gold total medals 2,629 Team GB 284 Gold total medals 916 Then you look at Australia and New Zealand, they have done better still.

Problem with that is nations are capped on how how many athletes they can send, which is why separate Germanys dropped from a combined 142 medals in 1988 to 82 with a unified team in 1992. So it's apples and oranges.

Uh no germany and soviets used tons of drugs

OK Batman

Ind is not interested , formalities-2

@@raghavendrapratap3367 yeah, India is exceptional.

It didn’t make the list. Still have some sprouting to do

@@hereusername They are great at doping.

Same like the US

@@gehejjed1 Without AHDH medication privileges, which is literally doping, Simone Biles become Simone bites the dust. Much is the same to countless swimmer in the U.S team, which use a medicine for easier breathing under water (not Dressler?, he's cool).

Insane cheating, from cutting edge doping to putting people with male chromosomes into women's events. The communist government orchestrated it all and generally put serious resources into building an athletics machine for propaganda purposes, like the USSR did and China is now.

You don't understand Soviet Union medals aint counted as Russian ones Russian ones are Russians not Soviets so until this day USSR is the 2nd country to have the most medals even I'd this country doesn't exist anymore.

@@ilyas80s65 Russia is the only official successor of the USSR. Wake up to reality!

@@alexstorm2749 so we're gonna forget the 14 other republics that made up the Soviet Union that's why Ukrainians belurussians kazakhs Georgians and Baltic peoples don't want anything to do with Russians anymore they are like the england of Britain

@@inigobantok1579 🤦‍♀️

wtf are you talking about?

Don't matter still 8th

There is a restriction in athletes per country in many sports that disadvantages the US. I guarantee that if the 50 US states were separate countries in the Olympics, they would win way more overall medal combined than they do as the US because of this. Not to mention that there is a limited amount of events which makes it impossible for a nation like the US to win per capita. And in say soccer, Uruguay or Netherlands are probably the best per capita but Brazil is considered the best all time because they win the most. The US is the most successful sports nation in the world (in terms of Olympic, world championship and major results), and is all time (most top players, most successful in olympics, major or world championship in the sport all time) the best in baseball, basketball, track and field, swimming, lacrosse, beach volleyball, figure skating, tennis, golf, boxing, diving, shooting, rowing, snowboarding etc and is all time top 5 in ice hockey, wrestling, gymnastics, volleyball, speed skating, alpine skiing, bobsleigh, equestrian, sailing, cycling, weightlifting, archery etc. No nation comes remotely close to the US in overall sporting achievements

That made no sense "Murkejee".

@@goosenuggets9693 he’s basically saying that the richer and larger countries do the best

Malayali❤️

As if the soviets didn’t lmao

Worker rights are way better in the US than many places like China lol. What's your point?

Why you ranking workers rights in an Olympic video salty much

+SmokeStack Wtf are you talking about? The US would still be near the top. Lmao, salty CCP bot.

Not too sure about that bud, Google the US based CATO Institute rankings: The USA comes out in 17th place joint with the UK on the freedom based index. Far more chance if you're from a poor background to make it big if you're from Ireland, Sweden or New Zealand, but even your neighbours Canada some out higher for equal opportunities.

Sometimes too much pride can be a bit….

Is dead.

@@hacienda2490 Is alive in our hearts*

@@rimurutempest5377 Lol, nice consultation prize.