Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania are the best in STEM when it comes to these competitions because they’re populations are so small, but they score so high. Honorable mention to Taiwan.
Bulgaria is the best, Slovakia the second, Romania the third in medals/population. It is a miracle they are in this top, compared with other countries population.
You can't just simply divide medals on population, you'll get number that means nothing. Because each country can't send all people they want - both 1bln China and 7mln Bulgaria can send only 6 schoolchildren at the contest. And talent has a gaussian distribution, so having 2 times more population doesn't mean that the most clever children will be 2 times "cleverer". Anyway it is quite obvious that this countries have a good system of preparing talents for win in school olympiads ( not only informatics, as well math, physics, chemistry etc.). It is exactly the same system as in Russia in China - at the time of the Soviet Union it seeded this system for all countries in it's block. The only good thing that came from communism)
@@valergrad Bulgaria has no more than 1000 students and less than 20 top schools, let alone the resources of countries such as China, US or Japan so it is really impressive and can not be explained. If we include Iranians who are genetically close to bulgarians and Slovakians who basically speak a version of Bulgarian, Bulgaria automatically gets the second place :).
@@metodipenkov7319 "If we include Iranians who are genetically close to bulgarians and Slovakians who basically speak a version of Bulgarian, Bulgaria automatically gets the second place" LOL. And if you include the whole world you'll be at first place, don't be so humble.
@@anopsingh6754 Bro, I'm Chinese. Huge population + little resource = fierce competition. That's the reason. An IOI gold medal get the student directly into CS major in top 2 universities in China. Then a position in top tech companies, which earns more than $200K per year. Meantime the typical salary is less than $10K per year. Who can resist this temptation? All he has to do is to win that damn medal, then his life is secured.
@@esl2317 stop BS, population has no part here, india and many other nations has big ppl , it does not have high achivemment, its average itnerlrllgence,,,,, only higher on that, you can have better players, otherwise you have more people , if base score is low, it wont help, also stop BS, olympia medal does not gain you anything today in china, also top university is all same in every country, from top universty , you make more money, then why other nation cant achive what china attain?
It's true in Poland, many people deal with programming, everyone has a computer at home, even two, and probably everyone has internet, whether on the phone or at home
who said india is superpower in IT? india only do contract job beacuse its cheapest in world, india does not own any IT technology, its just have cheap software workers using IT technology from other nations