SortStack #3603 — 2036-04-20

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

1. People who have ever flown in space 680

   More people summit Everest in a single busy season than have ever left Earth's atmosphere.

2. People who have ever won a Nobel Prize 975

   Four people won it twice; the Curie family alone collected five medals.

3. The population of New Zealand 5.2M

   Outnumbered five to one by sheep — and that's actually the lowest the ratio has been in a century.

4. The population of Portugal 10.4M

   Once ran a global empire from a country smaller than the US state of Indiana.

5. The population of the Netherlands 18M

   The world's second-largest food exporter by value, from a country the size of Maryland.

6. The population of Russia 144M

   The world's largest country by land has fewer people than Bangladesh.

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