SortStack #726 — 2028-06-04
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Residents of Saint Helena, Napoleon's island of exile 4.4K
Until its airport opened in 2017, the only way in was a five-day boat trip from Cape Town.
- The population of Cape Verde 520K
More Cape Verdeans live abroad than on the islands themselves.
- The population of Qatar 2.7M
Citizens are outnumbered roughly eight to one by foreign workers and expats.
- The population of Uruguay 3.4M
Won the first football World Cup in 1930 with fewer people than many single cities.
- The population of New Zealand 5.2M
Outnumbered five to one by sheep — and that's actually the lowest the ratio has been in a century.
- Christians worldwide 2.4B
The world's largest religion — nearly a third of humanity across every continent.