Tuesday, January 12, 2010

FIFA Rankings by Similar Population

I came up with this post because I was curious about how nations of similar populations were FIFA ranked against each other. Countries with populations of more than 10 million were used for this post. See Part 2 HERE, which includes all the nations with populations of less than 10 million.

More than 100 million
2 - Brazil
12 - Russia
14 - United States
17 - Mexico
22 - Nigeria
43 - Japan
93 - China
120 - Indonesia
134 - India
149 - Bangladesh
156 - Pakistan


50-100 million
3 - Italy
5 - Germany
6 - France
7 - England
24 - Egypt
24 - Turkey
64 - Iran
105 - Thailand
107 - Congo DR
122 - Ethiopia
123 - Vietnam
140 - Myanmar
167 - Philippines


30-50 million
1 - Spain
8 - Argentina
22 - Ukraine
26 - Algeria
39 - Colombia
52 - South Korea
56 - Canada
58 - Poland
67 - Morocco
75 - Uganda
85 - South Africa
88 - Iraq
98 - Kenya
108 - Sudan

20-30 million
16 - Cote d'Ivoire
21 - Australia
34 - Ghana
36 - Romania
50 - Venezuela
63 - Saudi Arabia
68 - Peru
72 - Mozambique
76 - Uzbekistan
86 - North Korea
91 - Syria
130 - Yemen
151 - Sri Lanka
152 - Nepal
160 - Malaysia
162 - Chinese Taipei
193 - Afghanistan

10-20 million
3 - Netherlands
5 - Portugal
11 - Cameroon
13 - Greece
15 - Chile
25 - Czech Republic
37 - Ecuador
47 - Mali
49 - Burkina Faso
53 - Tunisia
54 - Hungary
66 - Belgium
73 - Guinea
84 - Zambia
89 - Senegal
90 - Haiti
95 - Angola
99 - Malawi
109 - Zimbabwe
119 - Cuba
121 - Guatemala
125 - Kazakhstan
145 - Chad
158 - Madagascar
163 - Niger
175 - Cambodia
190 - Dominican Republic

6 comments:

  1. Another great post Steve. Have you come across Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski's book, 'Why England Lose; and Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained'? I think it'd be right up your alley.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0007301111/ref=s9_k2a_gw_tr01?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-6&pf_rd_r=0HE7H749EVVB9XCWZM26&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128453&pf_rd_i=468294

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  2. Looks interesting Tom,
    I'll try and check it out, Thanks.

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  3. This is excellent. Really cool. Who would be in first in the "under" 10M category?

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  4. What about the population from Africa that goes into France? Is that already counted?

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  5. @Ibracadabra

    I haven't started the under 10m list yet, but the higest ranked team with under 10 million people at the moment is Croatia, ranked 10th overall. (population around 4.5 million)

    @agm_9
    I used the official estimate for France from the INSEE, which was 65,073,482 including all French overseas territories.

    I'll probably make the under 10m list tonight or tomorrow sometime and have it up in the next couple of days.

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