SortStack #663 — 2028-04-02

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. 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.

2. San Francisco — the city proper 810K

   Smaller in population than Indianapolis, despite its outsized cultural footprint.

3. The population of Jamaica 2.8M

   Has won more Olympic sprint medals per capita than any nation in history.

4. The population of Norway 5.5M

   Its sovereign wealth fund owns about 1.5 percent of every listed company on Earth.

5. The population of North Korea 26.2M

   Almost exactly the same as Australia's — packed into an area smaller than Mississippi.

6. The population of Brazil 216M

   Home to more Catholics — and more Japanese people outside Japan — than any other country.

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