SortStack #180 — 2026-12-06
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Residents of the Falkland Islands 3.7K
Sheep outnumber people there by roughly 130 to one.
- The population of Singapore 5.9M
A city-state smaller than New York City, yet one of the world's busiest ports.
- The population of Portugal 10.4M
Once ran a global empire from a country smaller than the US state of Indiana.
- The population of Australia 26.6M
Nine in ten Australians live within 50 km of the coast; the interior is nearly empty.
- The population of Indonesia 277M
The world's largest archipelago nation and largest Muslim-majority population.
- Everyone living on the African continent 1.5B
The youngest continent: the median African is around 19 years old.