What is the difference in the global population hockey stick between Albania and Lithuania?

42,440 people, with Lithuania ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Albania and Lithuania?

241 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2023.

Where does this data come from?

HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as The global population hockey stick. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Albania vs Lithuania: The global population hockey stick

Albania

2.81 million people

in 2023

Lithuania

2.85 million people

in 2023

Albania rank

144th

Lithuania rank

142nd

The global population hockey stick over time

Albania
Lithuania

How they compare

Lithuania currently reports 2.85 million people against 2.81 million people in Albania, a difference of 42,440 people.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Albania ahead.

Albania ranks 144th and Lithuania ranks 142nd of 239 countries.

Across the 40 decades both report, Albania averaged higher in 17 and Lithuania in 23.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Albania	Lithuania	Difference	Ahead
1000s	200,000 people	77,578 people	122,422 people	Albania
1100s	200,000 people	81,661 people	118,339 people	Albania
1200s	200,000 people	85,959 people	114,041 people	Albania
1300s	200,000 people	90,483 people	109,517 people	Albania
1400s	200,000 people	95,245 people	104,755 people	Albania
1500s	200,000 people	100,258 people	99,742 people	Albania
1600s	200,000 people	105,535 people	94,465 people	Albania
1700s	300,000 people	111,090 people	188,910 people	Albania
1710s	311,416 people	129,605 people	181,811 people	Albania
1720s	322,833 people	151,205 people	171,628 people	Albania
1730s	334,250 people	176,406 people	157,844 people	Albania
1740s	345,666 people	205,808 people	139,858 people	Albania
1750s	357,083 people	240,109 people	116,974 people	Albania
1760s	368,500 people	280,127 people	88,373 people	Albania
1770s	379,916 people	326,815 people	53,101 people	Albania
1780s	391,333 people	381,285 people	10,048 people	Albania
1790s	402,750 people	444,832 people	42,082 people	Lithuania
1800s	408,075 people	778,655 people	370,580 people	Lithuania
1810s	426,540 people	778,885 people	352,345 people	Lithuania
1820s	445,966 people	833,619 people	387,653 people	Lithuania
1830s	466,440 people	964,300 people	497,860 people	Lithuania
1840s	487,905 people	1.12 million people	628,772 people	Lithuania
1850s	522,327 people	1.29 million people	771,021 people	Lithuania
1860s	574,302 people	1.50 million people	923,958 people	Lithuania
1870s	631,435 people	1.74 million people	1.10 million people	Lithuania
1880s	693,950 people	2.01 million people	1.32 million people	Lithuania
1890s	764,134 people	2.33 million people	1.57 million people	Lithuania
1900s	839,909 people	2.70 million people	1.86 million people	Lithuania
1910s	908,772 people	2.59 million people	1.68 million people	Lithuania
1920s	964,424 people	2.33 million people	1.36 million people	Lithuania
1930s	1.04 million people	2.44 million people	1.40 million people	Lithuania
1940s	1.16 million people	2.50 million people	1.34 million people	Lithuania
1950s	1.41 million people	2.57 million people	1.16 million people	Lithuania
1960s	1.88 million people	2.94 million people	1.07 million people	Lithuania
1970s	2.43 million people	3.28 million people	848,538 people	Lithuania
1980s	3.00 million people	3.56 million people	557,130 people	Lithuania
1990s	3.25 million people	3.63 million people	377,695 people	Lithuania
2000s	3.08 million people	3.34 million people	262,543 people	Lithuania
2010s	2.90 million people	2.92 million people	17,243 people	Lithuania
2020s	2.84 million people	2.82 million people	24,895 people	Albania

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher the global population hockey stick, Albania or Lithuania?: Lithuania, at 2.85 million people against 2.81 million people in Albania as of 2023.
What is the difference in the global population hockey stick between Albania and Lithuania?: 42,440 people, with Lithuania ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Albania and Lithuania?: 241 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2023.
How do Albania and Lithuania rank globally for the global population hockey stick?: Albania ranks 144th and Lithuania ranks 142nd of 239 countries.
Where does this data come from?: HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as The global population hockey stick. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator: The global population hockey stick
Unit: people
Source: HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 239 places, 51,002 data points, 1000–2023
Last refreshed: 28 August 2026

Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources.