Olympic Medals Comparison
All-time medal tallies and results for every Summer and Winter Games, side by side.
Olympic Medals
Iran
27
Gold
29
Silver
32
Bronze
88
Total Medals
☀ Summer: 88
❄ Winter: 0
Saudi Arabia
0
Gold
2
Silver
2
Bronze
4
Total Medals
☀ Summer: 4
❄ Winter: 0
Kuwait
0
Gold
0
Silver
3
Bronze
3
Total Medals
☀ Summer: 3
❄ Winter: 0
United Arab Emirates
1
Gold
0
Silver
1
Bronze
2
Total Medals
☀ Summer: 2
❄ Winter: 0
Iraq
0
Gold
0
Silver
1
Bronze
1
Total Medals
☀ Summer: 1
❄ Winter: 0
Medals by Games Year — Gold, Silver, Bronze & Total
Stacked bars show gold, silver, and bronze each Games year (Summer + Winter combined). Lines track total medals per country.
Medals vs Population & GDP (by Games Year)
Each point is one Olympic year: medals won that year divided by that year’s population or GDP (not all-time totals). Years before our historical series (~1973) are omitted.
Medals per 10M People
Medals per $100B GDP
All-Time Totals — Head to Head
Gold Medals (All-Time)
Silver Medals (All-Time)
Bronze Medals (All-Time)
Total Medals (All-Time)
Summer Games — Medals by Olympics
| Games |
Iran
|
Iraq
|
Kuwait
|
Saudi Arabia
|
United Arab Emirates
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G S B · Total | G S B · Total | G S B · Total | G S B · Total | G S B · Total | |
| 2024 | 3 · 6 · 3 · 12 | — | — | — | — |
| 2020 | 3 · 2 · 2 · 7 | — | 0 · 0 · 1 · 1 | 0 · 1 · 0 · 1 | — |
| 2016 | 3 · 1 · 4 · 8 | — | — | — | 0 · 0 · 1 · 1 |
| 2012 | 7 · 5 · 1 · 13 | — | 0 · 0 · 1 · 1 | 0 · 0 · 1 · 1 | — |
| 2008 | 1 · 0 · 1 · 2 | — | — | — | — |
| 2004 | 2 · 2 · 2 · 6 | — | — | — | 1 · 0 · 0 · 1 |
| 2000 | 3 · 0 · 1 · 4 | — | 0 · 0 · 1 · 1 | 0 · 1 · 1 · 2 | — |
| 1996 | 1 · 1 · 1 · 3 | — | — | — | — |
| 1992 | 0 · 1 · 2 · 3 | — | — | — | — |
| 1988 | 0 · 1 · 0 · 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 1976 | 0 · 1 · 1 · 2 | — | — | — | — |
| 1972 | 0 · 2 · 1 · 3 | — | — | — | — |
| 1968 | 2 · 1 · 2 · 5 | — | — | — | — |
| 1964 | 0 · 0 · 2 · 2 | — | — | — | — |
| 1960 | 0 · 1 · 3 · 4 | 0 · 0 · 1 · 1 | — | — | — |
| 1956 | 2 · 2 · 1 · 5 | — | — | — | — |
| 1952 | 0 · 3 · 4 · 7 | — | — | — | — |
| 1948 | 0 · 0 · 1 · 1 | — | — | — | — |
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Data compiled from World Bank, IMF, Global Firepower, SIPRI, Numbeo, and Pew Research.
Last updated June 2026.
Sources & methodology