SortStack #3568 — 2036-03-16

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. The population of Nauru 12.5K

   The world's smallest island nation was once, briefly, the richest country per capita on Earth.

4. The population of Japan 124M

   Sells more adult diapers than baby diapers — a snapshot of the world's oldest population.

5. The European Union, all member states combined 449M

   Twenty-seven countries, twenty-four official languages, one market.

6. Everyone living on the African continent 1.5B

   The youngest continent: the median African is around 19 years old.

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