SortStack #1153 — 2029-08-05

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. The population of Latvia 1.9M

   Roughly a third of the country's people live in the capital, Riga.

2. The population of Kuwait 4.3M

   Roughly 70 percent of everyone living there is a foreign national.

3. Greater Shanghai 29M

   Its metro system, opened only in 1993, is already the longest in the world.

4. Natural redheads worldwide 140M

   Just one to two percent of humanity; the gene is recessive, so it can skip generations.

5. Every human alive at the height of the Roman Empire 300M

   Fewer people than live in the United States today — across the entire planet.

6. The population of India 1.4B

   Now the world's most populous country — one in six humans is Indian.

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