What is the difference in the global population hockey stick between Angola and Malaysia?

1.62 million people, with Angola ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Angola and Malaysia?

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.

Angola vs Malaysia: The global population hockey stick

Angola

36.75 million people

in 2023

Malaysia

35.13 million people

in 2023

Angola rank

43rd

Malaysia rank

45th

The global population hockey stick over time

Angola
Malaysia

How they compare

Angola currently reports 36.75 million people against 35.13 million people in Malaysia, a difference of 1.62 million people.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Angola ahead.

Angola ranks 43rd and Malaysia ranks 45th of 239 countries.

Across the 40 decades both report, Angola averaged higher in 29 and Malaysia in 11.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Angola	Malaysia	Difference	Ahead
1000s	1.00 million people	200,000 people	804,000 people	Angola
1100s	1.17 million people	239,200 people	932,130 people	Angola
1200s	1.34 million people	278,400 people	1.06 million people	Angola
1300s	1.51 million people	317,600 people	1.19 million people	Angola
1400s	1.76 million people	356,800 people	1.40 million people	Angola
1500s	2.01 million people	396,000 people	1.61 million people	Angola
1600s	2.13 million people	495,000 people	1.64 million people	Angola
1700s	2.26 million people	594,000 people	1.67 million people	Angola
1710s	1.18 million people	614,600 people	561,930 people	Angola
1720s	1.19 million people	635,200 people	557,730 people	Angola
1730s	1.21 million people	655,800 people	554,490 people	Angola
1740s	1.23 million people	676,400 people	552,320 people	Angola
1750s	1.25 million people	697,000 people	551,340 people	Angola
1760s	1.27 million people	717,600 people	551,680 people	Angola
1770s	1.29 million people	738,200 people	553,520 people	Angola
1780s	1.32 million people	758,800 people	557,040 people	Angola
1790s	1.34 million people	779,400 people	562,490 people	Angola
1800s	1.57 million people	287,000 people	1.28 million people	Angola
1810s	1.57 million people	287,119 people	1.28 million people	Angola
1820s	1.68 million people	315,797 people	1.36 million people	Angola
1830s	1.94 million people	386,874 people	1.55 million people	Angola
1840s	2.24 million people	474,645 people	1.77 million people	Angola
1850s	2.52 million people	579,559 people	1.94 million people	Angola
1860s	2.73 million people	703,949 people	2.03 million people	Angola
1870s	2.94 million people	912,479 people	2.02 million people	Angola
1880s	3.12 million people	1.27 million people	1.85 million people	Angola
1890s	3.17 million people	1.76 million people	1.41 million people	Angola
1900s	3.01 million people	2.36 million people	656,276 people	Angola
1910s	2.86 million people	2.94 million people	76,234 people	Malaysia
1920s	3.01 million people	3.62 million people	608,887 people	Malaysia
1930s	3.47 million people	4.48 million people	1.01 million people	Malaysia
1940s	4.06 million people	5.42 million people	1.35 million people	Malaysia
1950s	4.82 million people	6.89 million people	2.07 million people	Malaysia
1960s	5.50 million people	8.95 million people	3.45 million people	Malaysia
1970s	6.77 million people	11.36 million people	4.59 million people	Malaysia
1980s	9.63 million people	15.07 million people	5.43 million people	Malaysia
1990s	13.55 million people	20.11 million people	6.55 million people	Malaysia
2000s	19.09 million people	25.55 million people	6.46 million people	Malaysia
2010s	27.73 million people	31.01 million people	3.28 million people	Malaysia
2020s	35.09 million people	34.50 million people	593,650 people	Angola

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher the global population hockey stick, Angola or Malaysia?: Angola, at 36.75 million people against 35.13 million people in Malaysia as of 2023.
What is the difference in the global population hockey stick between Angola and Malaysia?: 1.62 million people, with Angola ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Angola and Malaysia?: 241 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2023.
How do Angola and Malaysia rank globally for the global population hockey stick?: Angola ranks 43rd and Malaysia ranks 45th 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.