I agree, but I did specifically say on the page that for these purposes I was considering reasonable absolute rankings of just the medal count, and that rankings taking into account external factors of that nature were beyond the scope of the analysis.

(Apart from anything else, rankings scaled per head of population or per dollar GDP have a tendency to stop making sense once the medal counts get small enough to be statistically insignificant, which means that most of the interesting bits of your table are full of unhelpful anomalies.)

Sorry! Must have missed that bit.