SortStack #3435 — 2035-11-04

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. Voting members of the US House of Representatives 435

   Frozen by law since 1929, even though the US population has nearly tripled since.

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. The population of the United Kingdom 68M

   More than a third of everyone in England lives in just the Southeast corner around London.

4. The population of Bangladesh 173M

   More people than Russia, in an area smaller than the US state of Iowa.

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. Muslims worldwide 1.9B

   The largest Muslim population lives not in the Middle East but in Indonesia.

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