SortStack #3400 — 2035-09-30

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Residents of the Falkland Islands 3.7K

   Sheep outnumber people there by roughly 130 to one.

2. New York City — the five boroughs 8.3M

   If each borough were its own city, four of them would still rank in the US top ten.

3. The population of Argentina 46M

   Nearly two-thirds of Argentines have Italian ancestry — hence the accent in their Spanish.

4. The population of Egypt 112M

   About 95 percent of Egyptians live on just 5 percent of the land, hugging the Nile.

5. Every human alive at the height of the Roman Empire 300M

   Fewer people than live in the United States today — across the entire planet.

6. The population of China 1.4B

   Lost its crown as the world's most populous country in 2023 after centuries at the top.

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