SortStack #446 — 2027-08-29

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Members of the Pope's Swiss Guard 135

   Recruits must be unmarried Swiss Catholic men who completed Swiss military training.

2. Residents of the Falkland Islands 3.7K

   Sheep outnumber people there by roughly 130 to one.

3. 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.

4. The population of the Philippines 117M

   Spread across more than 7,600 islands — though most people live on just eleven of them.

5. Left-handed people worldwide 800M

   About one in ten humans — a share that has stayed stable for at least 10,000 years of art.

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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