Key figures
- The USA won the most medals in total: 40 gold, 44 silver and 42 bronze, 126 in all, from 619 athletes.
- China was second on the map with 90 medals from 398 athletes, a higher rate per athlete than the USA.
- Saint Lucia tops the Medal Efficiency Index, with about 0.5 medals per athlete.
- Egypt has the lowest efficiency shown: 3 medals from 157 athletes.
- Host nation France won 64 medals with 600 athletes.
All figures are from the graphic, which cites olympics.com as its data source.
Paris 2024 medals by country, in text
The graphic has no overall title. It combines a world map shaded by total medals (legend “Total”, 20 to 120), five country callouts, a text note and a bar chart. The callouts show gold, silver and bronze medals and the number of athletes; the totals and the per athlete rate are our own arithmetic.
| Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total (our sum) | Athletes | Medals per athlete (our arithmetic) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA | 40 | 44 | 42 | 126 | 619 | 0.20 |
| China | 39 | 27 | 24 | 90 | 398 | 0.23 |
| France | 16 | 26 | 22 | 64 | 600 | 0.11 |
| Australia | 18 | 19 | 16 | 53 | 461 | 0.11 |
| Japan | 20 | 12 | 13 | 45 | 431 | 0.10 |
Text note on the graphic: “Kyrgyzstan and N. Korea both secured 6 medals with 16 and 14 athletes, respectively. USA achieved 136 medals with 619 athletes. Conversely, Egypt had the lowest efficiency, winning only 3 medals with 157 athletes.”
Bar chart: “Medal Efficiency Index”, subtitle “Medals won per athlete”, horizontal bars on an axis from 0.0 to 0.5, sorted from highest to lowest. Labelled countries, top to bottom:
- Saint Lucia
- Kyrgyzstan
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Armenia
- Georgia
- People’s Republic of China
- Republic of Korea
- United States of America
- Philippines
- Republic of Moldova
- Uzbekistan
- Azerbaijan
- Cabo Verde
- Spain
- Serbia
- South Africa
- Puerto Rico
- Slovakia
- Zambia
- Mongolia
- Refugee Olympic Team
- Egypt
Footer: “Data: https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/. Data Analysis: Python (Plotly Express) Visuals: Canva. Source code: https://www.kaggle.com/code/aleemaher/olympics-analysis”.
Total Olympic medals at Paris 2024
The final medal table for the Games, held in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024, had the United States on top for the fourth Summer Games in a row with 40 gold and 126 medals in total [3]. China finished second with 40 gold and 91 medals [3]. Saint Lucia, which leads the efficiency chart here, won its first Olympic medal and first gold at these Games, as did Dominica, while Albania and Cabo Verde won their first medals [3].
What medal efficiency measures
The index divides each country’s medals by the number of athletes it sent. Small teams can score highly with one or two medals, which is why Saint Lucia and Kyrgyzstan lead. Among the large teams on the map, China’s 90 medals from 398 athletes work out at about 0.23 per athlete, against about 0.20 for the USA, 0.11 for France, 0.12 for Australia and 0.10 for Japan (our arithmetic from the callouts). The measure counts every medal equally, so a bronze adds as much as a gold.
Notes on this infographic
- USA total. The text note says the USA “achieved 136 medals”. Its own callout adds up to 126, which matches the official medal table [3].
- China’s medals. The callout shows 39 gold and 90 in total. The final medal table gives China 40 gold and 91 medals [3]; the graphic’s data was probably taken before the table was final.
- Unlabelled bars. The efficiency chart has about twice as many bars as labels, because the plotting software labels only every other bar. The list above is the labels as printed, not every country charted.
- North Korea is named in the note but is not among the labelled bars.
Sources
- Aleemaher, Olympics Analysis, Kaggle notebook, 17 August 2024. The source code named on the graphic.
- Olympics.com, Paris 2024. Data source named on the graphic.
- Wikipedia, 2024 Summer Olympics medal table.
Last reviewed 30 October 2026
