Day six: NZ top of Commonwealth Games alternative medal table!

Anton Cooper Sam Gaze

After hauling in more golds overnight, NZ have squeezed into first place on the leaderboard of gold medals per capita. As at day six NZ has 2.48 golds per million people, narrowly ahead of Scotland at 2.47 golds per million.

Number of Gold Medals per Capita - day Six

1 NEW ZEALAND: 11 golds, population 4.433m  

2 Scotland: 13 golds, population 5.254m 

3 Jamaica: 5 golds, population 2.712m

4 Cyprus: 2 golds, population 1.129m  

5 Australia: 34 golds, population 22.68m 

6 Wales: 4 golds, population 3.006m 

7 Singapore: 4 golds, population 5.312m

8 England: 33 golds, population 56.1m 

9 Canada: 16 golds, population 33.47m 

10  South Africa: 9 golds, population 51.19m

11 PNG: 1 gold, population 7.167m

12  Malaysia: 3 golds, population 29.24m

13 Kenya: 4 golds, population 43.18m

14 Cameroon: 1 gold, population 21.7m

15  Nigeria: 3 golds, population 168.8m

16  India: 10 golds, population 1.210bn

=17  Isle of Man, Samoa, Bahamas, Mauritius, Northern Ireland, Namibia, Cameroon, Zambia, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Uganda, Bangladesh, Pakistan: 0 golds.

(Population numbers from Wikipedia)

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