So there’s a limit to how many athletes per country can attend an event. Naturally the larger the country is the proportion to athletes will be lower. A part of me wonders what median income correlates to the total number of athletes.
In this case a small country might have more athletes represented per million but correlating this with democracy makes no sense at all.
I think I’m more surprised by where some of these countries sit on the democracy index. Interesting.
Would be more interesting with a flat, number of Olympic athletes along the Y axis
Why TF did you use a log graph‽ It makes it look like there’s only a slight correlation.
After India repealed the article 370 law to recognise Kashmir as an Indian state which it always has been, its democracy, press and freedom rankings went down significantly. Shows you how biased these rankings are
![[OC] Democracy & Olympic Athlete Representation](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/8b78gxhk1pgd1-1086x1024.png)
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Sources:
* [Democracy Index](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-eiu) (The Economist Intelligence Unit / data published by Our World in Data)
* [Olympic Athletes](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/athletes-olympics-numbers-2024-paris-games/)
* [Flag graphics ](https://www.flaticon.com/packs/countrys-flags)
Viz created in Excel
Let me know if you want any specific countries added!
*** Not claiming any kind of causal relationship here before the cOrRelaTiOn is NoT caUsaTiOn crowd gets involved. It’s just a nice chart.
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So there’s a limit to how many athletes per country can attend an event. Naturally the larger the country is the proportion to athletes will be lower. A part of me wonders what median income correlates to the total number of athletes.
In this case a small country might have more athletes represented per million but correlating this with democracy makes no sense at all.
I think I’m more surprised by where some of these countries sit on the democracy index. Interesting.
Would be more interesting with a flat, number of Olympic athletes along the Y axis
Why TF did you use a log graph‽ It makes it look like there’s only a slight correlation.
After India repealed the article 370 law to recognise Kashmir as an Indian state which it always has been, its democracy, press and freedom rankings went down significantly. Shows you how biased these rankings are