SortStack #2742 — 2033-12-11

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Members of the Pope's Swiss Guard 135

   Recruits must be unmarried Swiss Catholic men who completed Swiss military training.

2. Residents of the Falkland Islands 3.7K

   Sheep outnumber people there by roughly 130 to one.

3. Residents of Venice's historic island center 50K

   Down from 175,000 in 1950 — on busy days, tourists outnumber Venetians.

4. The population of Cape Verde 520K

   More Cape Verdeans live abroad than on the islands themselves.

5. The population of Kuwait 4.3M

   Roughly 70 percent of everyone living there is a foreign national.

6. The population of Brazil 216M

   Home to more Catholics — and more Japanese people outside Japan — than any other country.

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