SortStack #1447 — 2030-05-26

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of the Pitcairn Islands 47

   Nearly all are descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers who hid there in 1790.

2. The population of Greenland 56K

   The world's largest island has fewer residents than a mid-size football stadium has seats.

3. The population of Malta 540K

   The EU's smallest member squeezes onto islands smaller than Philadelphia.

4. The population of Luxembourg 660K

   Nearly half its workforce commutes in daily from France, Belgium, and Germany.

5. New York City — the five boroughs 8.3M

   If each borough were its own city, four of them would still rank in the US top ten.

6. The population of Japan 124M

   Sells more adult diapers than baby diapers — a snapshot of the world's oldest population.

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