[Abram Jones]

Here are the economic results that deal with sport specific available population per game, this takes into account both population amount and wealth of each nation. Below is a list of all countries in the tournament as well as their soccer football specific available population in millions. This number determines the potential of people/resources contributing to the sport of soccer (directly or indirectly).

MATCHES WON BY THE COUNTRY WITH MORE SPORT SPECIFIC AVAILABLE POPULATION
GROUP STAGE: 14/25 (56%)
KNOCKOUT STAGE: 9/15 (60%)
TOTAL: 23/40 (58% victories for countries with more available population)

COUNTRIES (24)
Russia (80.9) 1st
Germany (53.3) 1st
France (42.6) 1st
Italy (39.5) 1st
England (34.5) 1st
Spain (31.3) 1st
Turkey (27.6) 1st
Ukraine (26.1) 1st
Poland (22.0) 1st
Romania (8.3) 1st
Belgium (7.3) 1st
Portugal (6.9) 1st
Sweden (6.2) 1st
Austria (5.7) 1st
Hungary (5.3) 1st
Slovakia (3.4) 1st
Czechia (3.2) 2nd
Switzerland (2.7) 2nd
Croatia (2.6) 1st
Northern Ireland (1.2) 1st
Wales (1.0) 2nd
Ireland: 0.8 (3rd)
Albania (0.7) 1st
Iceland (0.2) 1st
TOTAL: 413.3
AVERAGE: 17.2

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[Decky]

What is even more impressive about Wales is that football isn't even the countries 1st sport. Rugby Union is far more popular that football in Wales.