What is the difference in the global population hockey stick between Austria and Belarus?

14,750 people, with Austria ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Austria and Belarus?

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

Austria vs Belarus: The global population hockey stick

Austria

9.13 million people

in 2023

Belarus

9.12 million people

in 2023

Austria rank

99th

Belarus rank

100th

The global population hockey stick over time

Austria
Belarus

How they compare

Austria currently reports 9.13 million people against 9.12 million people in Belarus, a difference of 14,750 people.

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

Austria ranks 99th and Belarus ranks 100th of 239 countries.

Across the 40 decades both report, Austria averaged higher in 30 and Belarus in 10.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Austria	Belarus	Difference	Ahead
1000s	700,000 people	192,000 people	508,000 people	Austria
1100s	900,000 people	288,000 people	612,000 people	Austria
1200s	1.25 million people	432,000 people	818,000 people	Austria
1300s	2.00 million people	432,000 people	1.57 million people	Austria
1400s	1.25 million people	432,000 people	818,000 people	Austria
1500s	2.00 million people	576,000 people	1.42 million people	Austria
1600s	2.10 million people	720,000 people	1.38 million people	Austria
1700s	2.12 million people	960,000 people	1.16 million people	Austria
1710s	2.23 million people	1.13 million people	1.10 million people	Austria
1720s	2.35 million people	1.23 million people	1.12 million people	Austria
1730s	2.46 million people	1.33 million people	1.13 million people	Austria
1740s	2.57 million people	1.44 million people	1.13 million people	Austria
1750s	2.68 million people	1.56 million people	1.12 million people	Austria
1760s	2.78 million people	1.69 million people	1.09 million people	Austria
1770s	2.88 million people	1.83 million people	1.04 million people	Austria
1780s	2.97 million people	1.99 million people	982,800 people	Austria
1790s	3.05 million people	2.15 million people	893,870 people	Austria
1800s	3.08 million people	2.36 million people	724,680 people	Austria
1810s	3.26 million people	2.36 million people	908,212 people	Austria
1820s	3.44 million people	2.46 million people	987,543 people	Austria
1830s	3.62 million people	2.69 million people	927,788 people	Austria
1840s	3.82 million people	2.95 million people	873,637 people	Austria
1850s	4.08 million people	3.23 million people	842,714 people	Austria
1860s	4.36 million people	3.56 million people	805,341 people	Austria
1870s	4.71 million people	3.91 million people	796,552 people	Austria
1880s	5.15 million people	4.30 million people	841,413 people	Austria
1890s	5.66 million people	4.73 million people	921,848 people	Austria
1900s	6.26 million people	5.21 million people	1.06 million people	Austria
1910s	6.54 million people	5.73 million people	818,798 people	Austria
1920s	6.57 million people	6.28 million people	288,850 people	Austria
1930s	6.70 million people	6.88 million people	179,549 people	Belarus
1940s	6.82 million people	7.54 million people	719,708 people	Belarus
1950s	6.95 million people	7.55 million people	592,892 people	Belarus
1960s	7.25 million people	8.62 million people	1.37 million people	Belarus
1970s	7.55 million people	9.29 million people	1.74 million people	Belarus
1980s	7.57 million people	9.90 million people	2.33 million people	Belarus
1990s	7.90 million people	10.17 million people	2.27 million people	Belarus
2000s	8.19 million people	9.72 million people	1.53 million people	Belarus
2010s	8.61 million people	9.48 million people	863,887 people	Belarus
2020s	9.02 million people	9.22 million people	201,918 people	Belarus

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher the global population hockey stick, Austria or Belarus?: Austria, at 9.13 million people against 9.12 million people in Belarus as of 2023.
What is the difference in the global population hockey stick between Austria and Belarus?: 14,750 people, with Austria ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Austria and Belarus?: 241 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2023.
How do Austria and Belarus rank globally for the global population hockey stick?: Austria ranks 99th and Belarus ranks 100th 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.