Comment by imglorp

I found this interesting: "Most active Grandmasters are living in Russia. A whopping 256 Grandmasters are registered under the Russian Flag. The United States of America has 101 active Grandmasters, while 96 Grandmasters are playing for Germany." That's:

              pop   gm   gm per 1e7
    US  333091348  101          3.0
    RU  146001137  256         17.5
    DE   84070834   96         11.4