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2016 Copa America Regarding Population And Wealth Amount

Abram Jones

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Here are the economic results for the tournament. This includes a list of countries and their estimated available population that can potentially contribute the sport of soccer (be it directly or indirectly). Available population is determined by number of people living on at least the equivalent of 10 USD per day and in between the ages of 15 and 64.

(MATCHES WON BY THE COUNTRY WITH MORE AVAILABLE POPULATION)
GROUP STAGE: 17/21 (81%)
KNOCKOUT STAGE: 4/8 (50%)
TOTAL: 21/29 (72% victories for countries with more available population)

COUNTRIES (16)
Brazil: 63.5 (1st)
Mexico: 38.6 (1st)
Argentina: 18.4 (1st)
United States: 13.1 (5th)
Colombia: 12.2 (1st)
Peru: 8.9 (1st)
Chile: 7.6 (1st)
Ecuador: 4.2 (1st)
Bolivia: 2.2 (1st)
Venezuela: 2.0 (3rd)
Paraguay: 1.9 (1st)
Costa Rica: 1.7 (1st)
Uruguay: 1.3 (1st)
Panama: 0.5 (2nd)
Jamaica: 0.4 (2nd)
Haiti: 0.2 (1st)
TOTAL: 176.7
AVERAGE: 11.0

 
Here are the economic results for the tournament. This includes a list of countries and their estimated available population that can potentially contribute the sport of soccer (be it directly or indirectly). Available population is determined by number of people living on at least the equivalent of 10 USD per day and in between the ages of 15 and 64.

(MATCHES WON BY THE COUNTRY WITH MORE AVAILABLE POPULATION)
GROUP STAGE: 17/21 (81%)
KNOCKOUT STAGE: 4/8 (50%)
TOTAL: 21/29 (72% victories for countries with more available population)

COUNTRIES (16)
Brazil: 63.5 (1st)
Mexico: 38.6 (1st)
Argentina: 18.4 (1st)
United States: 13.1 (5th)
Colombia: 12.2 (1st)
Peru: 8.9 (1st)
Chile: 7.6 (1st)
Ecuador: 4.2 (1st)
Bolivia: 2.2 (1st)
Venezuela: 2.0 (3rd)
Paraguay: 1.9 (1st)
Costa Rica: 1.7 (1st)
Uruguay: 1.3 (1st)
Panama: 0.5 (2nd)
Jamaica: 0.4 (2nd)
Haiti: 0.2 (1st)
TOTAL: 176.7
AVERAGE: 11.0

And what's this meant to tell us. Weird thread. Haiti has a population of 10.6 million btw, and you're saying that only 200,000 are of footballing age?
 
And what's this meant to tell us. Weird thread. Haiti has a population of 10.6 million btw, and you're saying that only 200,000 are of footballing age?

This is meant to tell you that wealth and population amount are large factors in international sport. Not because of this one tournament alone, but because these results are a regular occurrence: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B3wXt1wZ9kaFSFAtMUZXVUNBWXM

As mentioned in my initial post, we are not dealing with total population in these studies, we are dealing with available population (defined above). Most of Haiti's population lives in extreme poverty (not normal poverty as we know here in the west), this reduces their ability to contribute to sports infrastructure immensely. This is also not dealing with people of football age.
 
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