SortStack #1524 — 2030-08-11

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. People who have ever flown in space 680

   More people summit Everest in a single busy season than have ever left Earth's atmosphere.

2. The population of Latvia 1.9M

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

3. The population of Argentina 46M

   Nearly two-thirds of Argentines have Italian ancestry — hence the accent in their Spanish.

4. The population of Vietnam 100M

   Roughly 40 percent of all Vietnamese share the surname Nguyen.

5. The population of the Philippines 117M

   Spread across more than 7,600 islands — though most people live on just eleven of them.

6. The population of India 1.4B

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

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