The bar chart below shows the total number of Olympic medals won by twelve different countries.

The illustration compares twelve countries in terms of medals won at the Olympic games.

Overall

, the USA is by far the nation that has known the most success during these games since they are the ones who won the most.

It is clear that

both bronze, silver and gold have a very similar trend for each country present in the bar chart. The USA has won a total of more or less 2,300 awards, including 900 times in the first position, 750 times in the second and 650 times in the third place.

Then

in the second place, we have the Soviet Union, with just over 1,000 medals. Again, the figures for gold won by

this

country are higher than the number of bronze and silver ones.

Furthermore

, we can observe that the following countries in the ranking have similar numbers for each type of medal :

for example

, it is the case for the UK, France, Germany and Italy.

Moreover

, apart from the USA and the Soviet Union, China is the only other country with a higher proportion of gold medals, about 200, in comparison with silvers 75 and bronzes 50.