2022 Winter Olympics: Countries Ranked by Athletes per 100k Residents

While watching the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, I wondered which countries sent the most athletes to the games relative to their population. After some light massaging of Wikipedia data, I have my answer.

Of countries having sent 10 or more athletes, the top 10 in order by athletes per 100k residents, are: Latvia, Slovenia, Estonia, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Austria, Sweden, Czech Republic, and Denmark.

These countries are also the only countries having sent 10 or more athletes with 1 or more athletes per 100k residents.

The full list is below.

 

Rank	Country	Athletes	Population	Athletes per 100k
1	Monaco	3	38,350	7.822686
2	Andorra	5	79,535	6.286541
3	San Marino	2	33,685	5.937361
4	Liechtenstein	2	39,151	5.108426
5	Latvia	58	1,874,900	3.093498
6	Slovenia	44	2,108,977	2.086320
7	American Samoa	1	49,710	2.011668
8	Estonia	26	1,330,068	1.954787
9	Switzerland	167	8,717,105	1.915774
10	Finland	95	5,519,255	1.721247
11	Norway	84	5,415,166	1.551199
12	Iceland	5	376,000	1.329787
13	Austria	106	8,976,467	1.180865
14	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	1	87,146	1.147500
15	Sweden	116	10,449,381	1.110114
16	Czech Republic	113	10,524,167	1.073719
17	Denmark	62	5,867,412	1.056684
18	Slovakia	50	5,452,025	0.917090
19	Canada	215	38,571,051	0.557413
20	Montenegro	3	621,306	0.482854
21	Lithuania	13	2,794,961	0.465123
22	Luxembourg	2	634,730	0.315095
23	Belarus	29	9,349,645	0.310172
24	New Zealand	15	5,138,602	0.291908
25	Croatia	11	3,888,529	0.282883
26	Bulgaria	16	6,520,314	0.245387
27	Georgia	9	3,728,573	0.241379
28	Netherlands	41	17,686,931	0.231810
29	Jamaica	6	2,734,093	0.219451
30	Armenia	6	2,963,900	0.202436
31	Italy	118	59,045,521	0.199846
32	Malta	1	514,564	0.194339
33	Moldova	5	2,597,100	0.192522
34	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6	3,320,954	0.180671
35	Germany	149	83,222,442	0.179038
36	Kazakhstan	34	19,154,752	0.177502
37	Australia	44	25,943,761	0.169598
38	North Macedonia	3	1,832,696	0.163693
39	Belgium	19	11,617,817	0.163542
40	Poland	57	38,116,000	0.149543
41	Trinidad and Tobago	2	1,367,558	0.146246
42	ROC (Russia)	212	145,478,097	0.145726
43	Hungary	14	9,730,772	0.143873
44	France	86	67,813,000	0.126819
45	South Korea	64	51,671,569	0.123859
46	Ireland	6	5,011,500	0.119725
47	Cyprus	1	888,005	0.112612
48	Kosovo	2	1,782,115	0.112226
49	Romania	21	19,186,201	0.109454
50	Ukraine	45	41,208,106	0.109202
51	Japan	124	125,440,000	0.098852
52	East Timor	1	1,317,780	0.075885
53	Great Britain	50	67,081,234	0.074536
54	United States	224	333,174,787	0.067232
55	Israel	6	9,469,340	0.063362
56	Puerto Rico	2	3,285,874	0.060867
57	Mongolia	2	3,421,059	0.058461
58	Greece	5	10,678,632	0.046822
59	Lebanon	3	6,769,000	0.044320
60	Hong Kong	3	7,394,700	0.040570
61	Albania	1	2,829,741	0.035339
62	Spain	14	47,394,223	0.029539
63	Serbia	2	6,871,547	0.029106
64	Portugal	3	10,347,892	0.028991
65	Eritrea	1	3,601,000	0.027770
66	Chile	4	19,678,363	0.020327
67	Azerbaijan	2	10,152,829	0.019699
68	Taiwan	4	23,375,314	0.017112
69	Bolivia	2	11,797,257	0.016953
70	Kyrgyzstan	1	6,663,000	0.015008
71	Argentina	6	45,808,747	0.013098
72	China	173	1,412,600,000	0.012247
73	Haiti	1	11,743,017	0.008516
74	Turkey	7	84,680,273	0.008266
75	Madagascar	2	26,923,353	0.007428
76	Malaysia	2	32,695,600	0.006117
77	Thailand	4	66,749,780	0.005993
78	Colombia	3	51,049,498	0.005877
79	Ecuador	1	17,912,348	0.005583
80	Brazil	10	214,311,075	0.004666
81	Iran	3	85,169,870	0.003522
82	Ghana	1	30,792,608	0.003248
83	Mexico	4	126,014,024	0.003174
84	Peru	1	33,035,304	0.003027
85	Saudi Arabia	1	35,013,414	0.002856
86	Uzbekistan	1	35,356,772	0.002828
87	Morocco	1	36,506,641	0.002739
88	Philippines	1	111,453,159	0.000897
89	Nigeria	1	211,401,000	0.000473
90	Pakistan	1	225,200,000	0.000444
91	India	1	1,387,671,574	0.000072

References:

• Wikipedia: 2022 Winter Olympics
• Wikipedia: List of countries and dependencies by population