The top 10 nations by medals per capita are:<ref>Culpepper, C. (August 24, 2008) "Medals per capita goes to the Bahamas" Los Angeles Times</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" align="right"
! Rank !! Country !! Medals !! Population per medal
|-
| 1 ||align=left| Bahamas || 2 || 153,725
|-
| 2 ||align=left| Jamaica || 11 || 254,939
|-
| 3 ||align=left| Iceland || 1 || 304,367
|-
| 4 ||align=left| Slovenia || 5 || 401,542
|-
| 5 ||align=left| Australia || 46 || 447,844
|-
| 6 ||align=left| New Zealand || 9 || 463,717
|-
| 7 ||align=left| Norway || 10 || 464,445
|-
| 8 ||align=left| Cuba || 24 || 475,998
|-
| 9 ||align=left| Armenia || 6 || 494,764
|-
| 10 ||align=left| Belarus || 19 || 509,777
|-
| 11 ||align=left| Trinidad and Tobago || 2 || 523,683
|-
| 12 ||align=left| Estonia || 2 || 653,802
|-
| 13 ||align=left| Lithuania || 5 || 713,041
|-
| 14 ||align=left| Bahrain || 1 || 718,306
|-
| 15 ||align=left| Latvia || 3 || 748,474
|-
| 16 ||align=left| Mongolia || 4 || 749,020
|-
| 17 ||align=left| Georgia || 6 || 771,806
|-
| 18 ||align=left| Denmark || 7 || 783,531
|-
| 19 ||align=left| Slovakia || 6 || 874,124
|-
| 20 ||align=left| Croatia || 5 || 898,284
|-
| 21 ||align=left| Hungary || 10 || 993,091
|-
| 22 ||align=left| The Netherlands || 16 || 1,040,332
|-
| 23 ||align=left| Azerbaijan || 7 || 1,168,245
|-
| 24 ||align=left| Kazakhstan || 12 || 1,180,041
|-
| 25 ||align=left| Switzerland || 6 || 1,263,586
|}

References

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External links

LA Times Medals per Capita blog