The natural numbers 1,2,3,4,5------------100 are man made and found/devised and used for numerical analysis in scientific and technological works, but materials/elements are not man made,these are created by nature(say, they are formed under certain specific natural conditions of temperature and pressure). These natural conditions may not have favoured all elements found in periodic table to form on the earth in serial.
A Doctorate in Philosophy(Chemistry) can understand/answer this question.