SortStack #1195 — 2029-09-16
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Residents of Venice's historic island center 50K
Down from 175,000 in 1950 — on busy days, tourists outnumber Venetians.
- The population of Uruguay 3.4M
Won the first football World Cup in 1930 with fewer people than many single cities.
- The population of South Korea 52M
Has the world's lowest birth rate — and the fastest average internet to compensate.
- The population of Germany 84M
The EU's most populous country — yet its capital is only its third-densest city.
- The population of Indonesia 277M
The world's largest archipelago nation and largest Muslim-majority population.
- The population of China 1.4B
Lost its crown as the world's most populous country in 2023 after centuries at the top.