This is a listing of the 2004 Summer Olympics medal counts if the countries of various International organizations pooled their medals.

Disclaimer

Important: The total number of medals won by athletes of nations belonging to these organizations would not equal the number of medals united teams would win. There are several factors that make such comparisons inaccurate:

In some individual events, there can be a great number of competing athletes for each organization. But currently the Olympic committee allows only one or two entries for each team per event, a rule meant to prevent larger countries from dominating the games.

The same constraint exists for relay events and team games. Olympic rules dictate that each country is only allowed one entry. United teams could therefore earn only one medal at most, though they might earn all three if they competed as separate nations.

Many of the organizations listed below have overlapping memberships. In the Olympics, athletes are required to compete under a single flag.

The differences between the various organizations have effect on the meaning of their tallies. For example:

* The UN count reflects a near-total of all medals awarded in the Games

* Counts of a supranational union, such as the EU, or of regional organizations, such as CARICOM, are often near-totals of the medals awarded to the athletes of the nations of a given continent or region.

* Other counts show the medals awarded to athletes of nations tied together by cultural or historical ties.

List of medals by organization

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
|- bgcolor="#efefef"
! Organization
! bgcolor="gold" |Gold
! bgcolor="silver" |Silver
! bgcolor="#CC9966" |Bronze
! Total
|-
|| United Nations (UN) ||299||298||326||923
|-
|| Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ||149||134||128||411
|-
|| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ||131||147||150||428
|-
|| Group of Eight (G8) ||125||126||136||387
|-
||
European Union (EU) ||82||101||103||286
|-
|| Organization of American States (OAS) ||57||59||55||171
|-
|| Latin Union ||50||52||59||161
|-
|| Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) ||44||45||63||152
|-
|| North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ||38||48||33||119
|-
|| Commonwealth of Nations ||37||41||41||119
|-
|| La Francophonie ||30||24||39||93
|-
|| African Union (AU) ||7||12||13||32
|-
|| Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) ||4||5||4||13
|-
|| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) ||4||3||8||15
|-
|| Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ||4||2||6||12
|-
|| Arab League ||4||2||4||10
|-
|| Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) ||3||1||4||8
|-
|| Total number of medals ||301||301||327||929
|}

See also:

Sports in the European Union