SortStack #187 — 2026-12-13
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Athletes who competed at the Paris 2024 Olympics 10.5K
The first Games with full gender parity: exactly half the quota places went to women.
- The population of Estonia 1.4M
The first country to allow online voting in national elections, back in 2005.
- The population of Qatar 2.7M
Citizens are outnumbered roughly eight to one by foreign workers and expats.
- The New York metropolitan area 19.5M
Its economy alone would rank among the ten largest countries in the world.
- Greater Delhi, India's capital region 33M
Adds roughly the population of a mid-size European city every single year.
- The population of the United Kingdom 68M
More than a third of everyone in England lives in just the Southeast corner around London.