SortStack #1657 — 2030-12-22

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. People who have ever stood on the summit of Mount Everest 6.9K

   Kami Rita Sherpa has been up more than 30 times — roughly one in every 230 summits is his.

2. The population of Nauru 12.5K

   The world's smallest island nation was once, briefly, the richest country per capita on Earth.

3. The population of Dominica 73K

   Its mountainous rainforest interior is so rugged that Columbus reportedly described it by crumpling paper.

4. Greater Delhi, India's capital region 33M

   Adds roughly the population of a mid-size European city every single year.

5. People with an Instagram account 2B

   If it were a country, it would be the largest on Earth — by a wide margin.

6. Every human alive today 8.1B

   All of us together would fit, standing, inside the city limits of Los Angeles.

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