SortStack #3631 — 2036-05-18

By population · Order from fewest to most people.

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

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

2. The population of Dominica 73K

   Its mountainous rainforest interior is so rugged that Columbus reportedly described it by crumpling paper.

3. The population of Nigeria 223M

   Projected to pass the United States and become the world's third most populous country by 2050.

4. The population of India 1.4B

   Now the world's most populous country — one in six humans is Indian.

5. People with an Instagram account 2B

   If it were a country, it would be the largest on Earth — by a wide margin.

6. Every human alive today 8.1B

   All of us together would fit, standing, inside the city limits of Los Angeles.

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