SortStack #1538 — 2030-08-25
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- Residents of Tristan da Cunha 240
The most remote inhabited island on Earth — 2,400 km of ocean to the nearest neighbor.
- San Francisco — the city proper 810K
Smaller in population than Indianapolis, despite its outsized cultural footprint.
- The population of Australia 26.6M
Nine in ten Australians live within 50 km of the coast; the interior is nearly empty.
- The population of South Korea 52M
Has the world's lowest birth rate — and the fastest average internet to compensate.
- The European Union, all member states combined 449M
Twenty-seven countries, twenty-four official languages, one market.
- Muslims worldwide 1.9B
The largest Muslim population lives not in the Middle East but in Indonesia.