Gold medals per capita - Commonwealth Games 2022

Key insights

4 island nations with populations <200,000 each won 1 gold medal, sending them to the top of the gold medals per capita charts.
After them is New Zealand with 20 gold medals and a population of 5.1 million, and then Northern Ireland with 7 gold medals and a population of 1.9 million.
NOTE: Triathlete, Hayden Wilde, has protested his silver medal, so New Zealand might yet get 21 gold medals from these games.

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Questions

Why does New Zealand do so well in sport relative to its population size?
Is there any cause for concern that NZ’s males won 13.5 (2/3) of the gold medals relative to the NZ’s females who won 6.5 (1/3)?

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Full data
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Notes

Medal tables are most commonly ranked based on gold medals, which is why we have done the same.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Games
“The 2022 Commonwealth Shooting and Archery Championships was to be held as a separate event in Chandigarh, India in January 2022. The number of events held and the medals won in the championships would have been counted in the final number of the 2022 Commonwealth Games. However, the event has since been cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic.”
All numbers are provisional and subject to revision.

Thank you to the Factors who helped pull this together.

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Gold medals per capita – Commonwealth Games 2022