SortStack #754 — 2028-07-02
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- The population of Kuwait 4.3M
Roughly 70 percent of everyone living there is a foreign national.
- The population of Norway 5.5M
Its sovereign wealth fund owns about 1.5 percent of every listed company on Earth.
- The population of Portugal 10.4M
Once ran a global empire from a country smaller than the US state of Indiana.
- The population of Russia 144M
The world's largest country by land has fewer people than Bangladesh.
- The population of India 1.4B
Now the world's most populous country — one in six humans is Indian.
- Every human alive today 8.1B
All of us together would fit, standing, inside the city limits of Los Angeles.