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Table 2 Diversity (D) among foreign-born athletes

From: Have the Olympic Games become more migratory? A comparative historical perspective

 

1960

2012

Argentina

0.444

0.625

Australia

0.860

0.935

Brazil

0.667

0.560

Canada

0.898

0.924

France

0.730

0.911

Great Britain

0.898

0.949

Italy

0.688

0.906

Netherlands

0.494

0.892

Spain (In 1960, only one athlete competing for Spain was born abroad, hence the outcome of zero diversity.)

0.000

0.923

Sweden

0.667

0.750

United States

0.860

0.962

All 11 countries

0.953

0.972

  1. Source: Authors’ calculations