SortStack #2644 — 2033-09-04
By population · Order from fewest to most people.
- The population of Nauru 12.5K
The world's smallest island nation was once, briefly, the richest country per capita on Earth.
- The population of San Marino 34K
Claims to be the world's oldest republic, founded — by tradition — in the year 301.
- Residents of the Faroe Islands 54K
Home to more sheep than people and to Europe's most remote capital, Tórshavn.
- The population of Iceland 390K
So small that a dating app warns Icelanders if a match is actually their cousin.
- Everyone living on the African continent 1.5B
The youngest continent: the median African is around 19 years old.
- Muslims worldwide 1.9B
The largest Muslim population lives not in the Middle East but in Indonesia.