SortStack #152 — 2026-11-08

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of the Pitcairn Islands 47

   Nearly all are descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers who hid there in 1790.

2. The population of Brunei 450K

   The Sultan's palace has 1,788 rooms and opens to the public for three days every year.

3. Ancient Rome at the height of the empire 1M

   No European city reached a million residents again until London, around 1800.

4. The population of Kuwait 4.3M

   Roughly 70 percent of everyone living there is a foreign national.

5. The population of the Netherlands 18M

   The world's second-largest food exporter by value, from a country the size of Maryland.

6. Every human alive today 8.1B

   All of us together would fit, standing, inside the city limits of Los Angeles.

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