| Population Adjusted Olympic Medal Table | |||||||
| Explanation: Score = Points (Gold = 3, Silver = 2, Bronze = 1) divided by Population (in millions) | |||||||
| Go to Final Results for Athens 2004 | 1992 | ||||||
| Final Results for Seoul 1988: | |||||||
| Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Points | Population (1987 Estimate) | Score | |
| Virgin Islands | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.112 | 17.857 | |
| East Germany | 37 | 35 | 30 | 211 | 16.598 | 12.712 | |
| Netherlands Antilles | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.176 | 11.364 | |
| Bulgaria | 10 | 12 | 13 | 67 | 8.983 | 7.459 | |
| Suriname | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.415 | 7.229 | |
| New Zealand | 3 | 2 | 8 | 21 | 3.341 | 6.286 | |
| Hungary | 11 | 6 | 6 | 51 | 10.608 | 4.808 | |
| Norway | 2 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 4.18 | 2.871 | |
| Romania | 7 | 11 | 6 | 49 | 22.913 | 2.139 | |
| Djibouti | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.47 | 2.128 | |
| Sweden | 0 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 8.387 | 1.788 | |
| Jamaica | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2.365 | 1.691 | |
| Australia | 3 | 6 | 5 | 26 | 16.188 | 1.606 | |
| South Korea | 12 | 10 | 11 | 67 | 42.082 | 1.592 | |
| Denmark | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5.126 | 1.561 | |
| Finland | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4.942 | 1.416 | |
| West Germany | 11 | 14 | 15 | 76 | 60.924 | 1.247 | |
| Czechoslovakia | 3 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 15.591 | 1.090 | |
| Netherlands | 2 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 14.615 | 1.026 | |
| USSR | 55 | 31 | 46 | 273 | 282.811 | 0.965 | |
| Kenya | 5 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 22.02 | 0.954 | |
| Yugoslavia | 3 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 23.433 | 0.939 | |
| Switzerland | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6.586 | 0.911 | |
| USA | 36 | 31 | 27 | 197 | 243.773 | 0.808 | |
| Great Britain | 5 | 10 | 9 | 44 | 56.878 | 0.774 | |
| Costa Rica | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2.613 | 0.765 | |
| Canada | 3 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 25.857 | 0.696 | |
| Poland | 2 | 5 | 9 | 25 | 37.769 | 0.662 | |
| France | 6 | 4 | 6 | 32 | 55.623 | 0.575 | |
| Italy | 6 | 4 | 4 | 30 | 57.256 | 0.524 | |
| Mongolia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.989 | 0.503 | |
| Austria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.554 | 0.397 | |
| Senegal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6.793 | 0.294 | |
| Portugal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10.312 | 0.291 | |
| Morocco | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 23.119 | 0.216 | |
| Japan | 4 | 3 | 7 | 25 | 122.1 | 0.205 | |
| Belgium | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9.861 | 0.203 | |
| Spain | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 38.832 | 0.180 | |
| Chile | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12.475 | 0.160 | |
| Greece | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10.01 | 0.100 | |
| Peru | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 20.727 | 0.096 | |
| Argentina | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 31.496 | 0.095 | |
| Turkey | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 52.845 | 0.095 | |
| Brazil | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 141.302 | 0.071 | |
| China | 5 | 11 | 12 | 49 | 1064.135 | 0.046 | |
| Iran | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 49.93 | 0.040 | |
| Colombia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 28.655 | 0.035 | |
| Mexico | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 81.323 | 0.025 | |
| Thailand | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 53.722 | 0.019 | |
| Phillippines | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 57.357 | 0.017 | |
| Indonesia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 172.245 | 0.012 | |
| Pakistan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 106.187 | 0.009 | |
| Entire World | 241 | 234 | 263 | 1454 | 5,022.99 | 0.289 | |