Now that we've got some medals on the board I was interested in seeing what the points total would look like if we factored in the size of the team or the population pool that the athletes had come from to see how that changes the rankings.

Points

CountryPopulationAthletesGoldSilverBronzeCountPointsPoints % AthletePoints % Population

United States308,672,000215112473.26%0.000002%

South Korea49,773,14546112510.87%0.000010%

Netherlands16,589,850341138.82%0.000018%

Slovakia5,421,937731134.11%0.000055%

Switzerland7,779,2001451132.07%0.000039%

Germany81,757,6001531121.31%0.000002%

Canada34,000,0002051120.98%0.000006%

Austria8,372,930811111.23%0.000012%

France65,447,3741081110.93%0.000002%

Russian Federation141,927,2971771110.56%0.000001%

Points as Percentage of Athletes

CountryPopulationAthletesGoldSilverBronzeCountPointsPoints % AthletePoints % Population

South Korea49,773,14546112510.87%0.000010%

Netherlands16,589,850341138.82%0.000018%

Slovakia5,421,937731134.11%0.000055%

United States308,672,000215112473.26%0.000002%

Switzerland7,779,2001451132.07%0.000039%

Germany81,757,6001531121.31%0.000002%

Austria8,372,930811111.23%0.000012%

Canada34,000,0002051120.98%0.000006%

France65,447,3741081110.93%0.000002%

Russian Federation141,927,2971771110.56%0.000001%

Points as a Percentage of Population

CountryPopulationAthletesGoldSilverBronzeCountPointsPoints % AthletePoints % Population

Slovakia5,421,937731134.11%0.000055%

Switzerland7,779,2001451132.07%0.000039%

Netherlands16,589,850341138.82%0.000018%

Austria8,372,930811111.23%0.000012%

South Korea49,773,14546112510.87%0.000010%

Canada34,000,0002051120.98%0.000006%

Germany81,757,6001531121.31%0.000002%

United States308,672,000215112473.26%0.000002%

France65,447,3741081110.93%0.000002%

Russian Federation141,927,2971771110.56%0.000001%

Sources:

Vancouver 2010 Medals

Vancouver 2010 Athletes, Teams and Countries

Wikipedia List of Countries by Population