SortStack #1167 — 2029-08-19
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Capacity of London's Royal Albert Hall 5.3K
The Beatles, Einstein, and Muhammad Ali all appeared on its stage.
- The population of Iceland 390K
So small that a dating app warns Icelanders if a match is actually their cousin.
- The population of North Korea 26.2M
Almost exactly the same as Australia's — packed into an area smaller than Mississippi.
- The population of the Philippines 117M
Spread across more than 7,600 islands — though most people live on just eleven of them.
- The population of Nigeria 223M
Projected to pass the United States and become the world's third most populous country by 2050.
- Left-handed people worldwide 800M
About one in ten humans — a share that has stayed stable for at least 10,000 years of art.