SortStack #943 — 2029-01-07

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of Tristan da Cunha 240

   The most remote inhabited island on Earth — 2,400 km of ocean to the nearest neighbor.

2. Voting members of the US House of Representatives 435

   Frozen by law since 1929, even though the US population has nearly tripled since.

3. People who have ever stood on the summit of Mount Everest 6.9K

   Kami Rita Sherpa has been up more than 30 times — roughly one in every 230 summits is his.

4. The population of Portugal 10.4M

   Once ran a global empire from a country smaller than the US state of Indiana.

5. The population of Canada 40M

   The world's second-largest country by area has fewer people than Greater Tokyo.

6. Left-handed people worldwide 800M

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

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