SortStack #1041 — 2029-04-15
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Sitting United States senators 100
Two per state since 1789 — the chamber only grows when a new state joins the union.
- Members of the Pope's Swiss Guard 135
Recruits must be unmarried Swiss Catholic men who completed Swiss military training.
- Voting members of the US House of Representatives 435
Frozen by law since 1929, even though the US population has nearly tripled since.
- The population of Tuvalu 11K
Its highest point is about 4.6 meters above sea level — rising oceans threaten the whole country.
- The population of Israel 9.7M
Despite its size, it has the world's highest number of museums per capita.
- Muslims worldwide 1.9B
The largest Muslim population lives not in the Middle East but in Indonesia.