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Medal tables per Capita and GDP
Academic research from 2002, done by Meghan Busse of Northwestern University, suggested that both a large population and high per capita GDP are needed to generate high medal totals, and predictive models have been built trying to predict success with multivariate analysis that included also past record and host-nation advantage.

News media in New Zealand begun to point out, that some countries can, despite the academic predictions, outperform many - several times bigger - participants at Olympics. In 2012, the Guardian was published per-Capita and per-GDP medal tables during the 2012 Summer Olympics. .

Medals per Capita
In 2014 the American media, such as the Washington Post has called Slovenia a per-capita powerhouse, The Atlantic wrote about Norway, Slovenia, and Latvia, and Slate compared the success of Slovenia with several times bigger USA, quoting a New Zealand website Medals per Capita. ;Key Host nation (Russia)

(Last updated: 19 February 2014, after 77 of 98 events)

Medals per GDP
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(Last updated: 19 February 2014, after 77 of 98 events)