Via slashdot comes news that World of Warcraft now has over 5 million subscribers.

To put this in perspective, I have taken some nifty world population charts from wikipedia, and stuck World of Warcraft in there.

Here’s a few countries now outpopulated by WoW:

• New Zealand
• Norway
• Croatia
• Ireland

FYI.. Azeroth would now be the 98th most populated region on this list of 221.
(Note that this chart has some regions not recognized as “countries”, including: the world, each continent, the EU.. etc)

Here they are in order:
Now, I konw WoW is a bit down there, but look at all its beating!
(note that wen you click a chart, your browser may scale it.. click it to zoom in some)

C’mon WoW! Keep climbing!