Country Rankings on Hosting Sport Events

The Sportcal Global Communications Limited published an article on Global Sports Impact (GSI) Nations Index which investigated 90 cities and nations across the world who are bidding and winning the right to host global sport events.

This analyzed around 700 major multi-sport games and world championships for the past 7 years and 7 years in the future.

As of April 2019, China had the greatest impact of hosting events with a score of 40,709. Completing the top 5 are United States (40,619), Japan (39,631), United Kingdom (32,770), and Russia (32,378).

At the bottom of the list are Cyprus (184), Croatia (196), Fiji (262), Panama (270), and Guatemala (286).

Global Sports Impact Index

Rank	Country	Score
1	China	40,709
2	United States of America	40,619
3	Japan	39,631
4	United Kingdom	32,770
5	Russia	32,378
6	Canada	29,925
7	France	28,196
8	Germany	27,846
9	Italy	22,858
10	Spain	19,192
11	South Korea	18,827
12	Denmark	18,486
13	Switzerland	18,274
14	Netherlands	18,206
15	Austria	17,533
16	Brazil	17,182
17	Qatar	16,227
18	Hungary	16,192
19	Australia	14,798
20	Sweden	14,684
21	Norway	10,211
22	Poland	10,044
23	Finland	9,943
24	Czech Republic	9,508
25	India	7,938
26	United Arab Emirates	7,774
27	Mexico	6,780
28	Belgium	6,699
29	Belarus	6,527
30	Kazakhstan	6,036
31	New Zealand	5,632
32	Peru	5,600
33	Azerbaijan	5,511
34	Bulgaria	4,925
35	Colombia	4,343
36	Slovakia	4,102
37	Indonesia	4,099
38	Egypt	4,080
39	Slovenia	3,994
40	Turkey	3,913
41	Taiwan	3,793
42	Malaysia	3,578
43	Latvia	3,154
44	Argentina	3,132
45	Thailand	2,947
46	Morocco	2,386
47	South Africa	2,344
48	Senegal	1,911
49	Hong Kong	1,825
50	Chile	1,814
51	Turkmenistan	1,807
52	Ireland	1,736
53	Portugal	1,722
54	Samoa	1,718
55	Lithuania	1,705
56	Andorra	1,703
57	Philippines	1,645
58	Paraguay	1,608
59	Algeria	1,447
60	Ghana	1,431
60	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1,431
62	Bangladesh	1,241
63	Bahamas	1,178
64	Papua New Guinea	1,168
65	Georgia	1,108
66	Solomon Islands	1,031
67	Costa Rica	948
68	Bermuda	930
69	Israel	837
70	Côte d'Ivoire	827
71	Uganda	799
72	Uzbekistan	792
73	Nicaragua	716
74	Estonia	691
75	Saint Lucia	686
75	Guyana	686
75	Antigua and Barbuda	686
78	French Polynesia	676
79	Serbia	635
80	Luxembourg	605
81	Tunisia	543
82	Ukraine	396
83	Kuwait	389
84	Puerto Rico	311
85	Romania	292
86	Guatemala	286
87	Panama	270
88	Fiji	262
89	Croatia	196
90	Cyprus	184