New Zealand's Sophie Pascoe celebrates her silver medal in the Womens 50m Freestyle S10 Swimming at the Rio Paralympics.

Yet again, New Zealand athletes are punching well above their weight.

New Zealand leads the medals per capita table at the Rio Paralympics, with the nine medals one edging the nation ahead of Slovenia and Jamaica into first place.

With a population of 4.53 million, New Zealand have won 1.99 medals per million people, just ahead of Slovenia at 1.93, Statistics New Zealand figures show.

Slovenia have won four medals, with a population of 2.07 million behind them.

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If you look at gold medals per million of population, New Zealand slips to third with Fiji topping the list, and Jamaica rising to second spot.

Fiji have won one gold medal, from a population of 890,000, while Jamaica's 2.79 million have seen their country take home three gold medals so far.

New Zealand have four gold medals, shared between Sophie Pascoe, Mary Fisher and Anna Grimaldi.

MEDALS PER CAPITA - TOP 5

New Zealand - 1.99 (medals per million)

Slovenia - 1.93

Jamaica - 1.79

Denmark - 1.59

Georgia - 1.50

Australia - 1.13 (10th)