London 2012 Olympic Game results. The total number of medals is shown for different countries (x-axis). The y-axis shows the number of medals normalized by the country's population. There seems to be a group of countries that outperforms the rest, with a value of medals per million inhabitants above 1. In particular New Zealand, Hungary, Australia, Denmark and Croatia. In this metric the US and China are not outliers, but are actually outperformed by a number of european countries, Canada and Russia. India is an outlier, with a very low number of medals per million inhabitants (about 0.005). The area of the data points is proportional to the GDP of the country they represent. Data Source: http://data.worldbank.org/ , http://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/2012/medals and Wikipedia