SortStack #2182 — 2032-05-30

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Capacity of London's Royal Albert Hall 5.3K

   The Beatles, Einstein, and Muhammad Ali all appeared on its stage.

2. The population of Nauru 12.5K

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

3. Capacity of Rio de Janeiro's Maracanã stadium 78.8K

   For the 1950 World Cup final it crammed in roughly 200,000 — still the record football crowd.

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

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

5. Every human alive when Napoleon crowned himself emperor 1B

   It took all of human history to reach the first billion — and only 220 more years to add seven more.

6. The population of India 1.4B

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

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