What is the difference in the global population hockey stick between Azerbaijan and Greece?

75,300 people, with Azerbaijan ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Azerbaijan and Greece?

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.

Azerbaijan vs Greece: The global population hockey stick

Azerbaijan

10.32 million people

in 2023

Greece

10.24 million people

in 2023

Azerbaijan rank

95th

Greece rank

96th

The global population hockey stick over time

Azerbaijan
Greece

How they compare

Azerbaijan currently reports 10.32 million people against 10.24 million people in Greece, a difference of 75,300 people.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Greece ahead.

Azerbaijan ranks 95th and Greece ranks 96th of 239 countries.

Greece has averaged higher in every one of the 40 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Azerbaijan	Greece	Difference	Ahead
1000s	186,000 people	1.00 million people	814,000 people	Greece
1100s	279,000 people	1.08 million people	801,000 people	Greece
1200s	372,000 people	1.17 million people	798,000 people	Greece
1300s	465,000 people	1.25 million people	785,000 people	Greece
1400s	372,000 people	900,000 people	528,000 people	Greece
1500s	465,000 people	1.00 million people	535,000 people	Greece
1600s	558,000 people	1.50 million people	942,000 people	Greece
1700s	651,000 people	1.50 million people	849,000 people	Greece
1710s	428,813 people	1.57 million people	1.14 million people	Greece
1720s	464,548 people	1.64 million people	1.17 million people	Greece
1730s	503,260 people	1.70 million people	1.20 million people	Greece
1740s	545,199 people	1.77 million people	1.23 million people	Greece
1750s	590,632 people	1.84 million people	1.25 million people	Greece
1760s	639,851 people	1.91 million people	1.27 million people	Greece
1770s	693,172 people	1.97 million people	1.28 million people	Greece
1780s	750,937 people	2.04 million people	1.29 million people	Greece
1790s	813,515 people	2.11 million people	1.30 million people	Greece
1800s	879,960 people	2.26 million people	1.38 million people	Greece
1810s	880,122 people	2.30 million people	1.42 million people	Greece
1820s	917,917 people	2.41 million people	1.49 million people	Greece
1830s	1.01 million people	2.64 million people	1.64 million people	Greece
1840s	1.10 million people	2.90 million people	1.79 million people	Greece
1850s	1.21 million people	3.18 million people	1.96 million people	Greece
1860s	1.35 million people	3.49 million people	2.14 million people	Greece
1870s	1.49 million people	3.84 million people	2.35 million people	Greece
1880s	1.65 million people	4.26 million people	2.61 million people	Greece
1890s	1.83 million people	4.73 million people	2.89 million people	Greece
1900s	2.03 million people	5.16 million people	3.13 million people	Greece
1910s	2.25 million people	5.54 million people	3.29 million people	Greece
1920s	2.47 million people	6.05 million people	3.58 million people	Greece
1930s	2.71 million people	6.83 million people	4.12 million people	Greece
1940s	2.97 million people	7.48 million people	4.51 million people	Greece
1950s	3.45 million people	7.96 million people	4.50 million people	Greece
1960s	4.55 million people	8.55 million people	4.00 million people	Greece
1970s	5.66 million people	9.06 million people	3.40 million people	Greece
1980s	6.74 million people	9.98 million people	3.24 million people	Greece
1990s	7.67 million people	10.49 million people	2.82 million people	Greece
2000s	8.58 million people	10.96 million people	2.38 million people	Greece
2010s	9.67 million people	10.89 million people	1.23 million people	Greece
2020s	10.26 million people	10.48 million people	226,200 people	Greece

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher the global population hockey stick, Azerbaijan or Greece?: Azerbaijan, at 10.32 million people against 10.24 million people in Greece as of 2023.
What is the difference in the global population hockey stick between Azerbaijan and Greece?: 75,300 people, with Azerbaijan ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Azerbaijan and Greece?: 241 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2023.
How do Azerbaijan and Greece rank globally for the global population hockey stick?: Azerbaijan ranks 95th and Greece ranks 96th 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.