SortStack #2518 — 2033-05-01

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Seats in the Sydney Opera House's main concert hall 2.7K

   The building's sails were so hard to engineer that the design pre-dated computers able to verify it.

2. 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.

3. Capacity of the world's largest cricket stadium, in Ahmedabad 132K

   It overtook Melbourne Cricket Ground, which had held the title for over a century.

4. The population of Norway 5.5M

   Its sovereign wealth fund owns about 1.5 percent of every listed company on Earth.

5. The population of Thailand 72M

   The only Southeast Asian country never colonized by a European power.

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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