SortStack #82 — 2026-08-30

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Capacity of Rio de Janeiro's Maracanã stadium 78.8K

   For the 1950 World Cup final it crammed in roughly 200,000 — still the record football crowd.

2. Mumbai — the city proper 12.5M

   Its dabbawalas deliver about 200,000 lunchboxes daily with near-perfect accuracy, no apps involved.

3. The New York metropolitan area 19.5M

   Its economy alone would rank among the ten largest countries in the world.

4. The population of Germany 84M

   The EU's most populous country — yet its capital is only its third-densest city.

5. Every human alive at the height of the Roman Empire 300M

   Fewer people than live in the United States today — across the entire planet.

6. The population of India 1.4B

   Now the world's most populous country — one in six humans is Indian.

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