What is the difference in the global population hockey stick between Bhutan and Luxembourg?

121,285 people, with Bhutan ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Bhutan and Luxembourg?

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.

Bhutan vs Luxembourg: The global population hockey stick

Bhutan

786,386 people

in 2023

Luxembourg

665,101 people

in 2023

Bhutan rank

167th

Luxembourg rank

169th

The global population hockey stick over time

Bhutan
Luxembourg

How they compare

Bhutan currently reports 786,386 people against 665,101 people in Luxembourg, a difference of 121,285 people.

That makes Bhutan's figure about 1.2 times Luxembourg's.

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

Bhutan ranks 167th and Luxembourg ranks 169th of 239 countries.

Across the 40 decades both report, Bhutan averaged higher in 17 and Luxembourg in 23.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Bhutan	Luxembourg	Difference	Ahead
1000s	10,000 people	55,892 people	45,892 people	Luxembourg
1100s	10,000 people	57,033 people	47,033 people	Luxembourg
1200s	10,000 people	58,197 people	48,197 people	Luxembourg
1300s	11,000 people	59,384 people	48,384 people	Luxembourg
1400s	12,000 people	60,596 people	48,596 people	Luxembourg
1500s	15,000 people	61,833 people	46,833 people	Luxembourg
1600s	20,000 people	63,095 people	43,095 people	Luxembourg
1700s	25,000 people	64,382 people	39,382 people	Luxembourg
1710s	27,619 people	68,061 people	40,442 people	Luxembourg
1720s	28,130 people	71,951 people	43,821 people	Luxembourg
1730s	28,651 people	76,062 people	47,411 people	Luxembourg
1740s	29,182 people	80,409 people	51,227 people	Luxembourg
1750s	29,722 people	85,003 people	55,281 people	Luxembourg
1760s	30,273 people	89,861 people	59,588 people	Luxembourg
1770s	30,833 people	94,996 people	64,163 people	Luxembourg
1780s	31,404 people	100,424 people	69,020 people	Luxembourg
1790s	31,986 people	106,163 people	74,177 people	Luxembourg
1800s	392,287 people	127,030 people	265,257 people	Bhutan
1810s	392,248 people	127,105 people	265,143 people	Bhutan
1820s	383,440 people	145,667 people	237,773 people	Bhutan
1830s	364,868 people	174,153 people	190,716 people	Bhutan
1840s	347,053 people	185,795 people	161,258 people	Bhutan
1850s	330,813 people	197,385 people	133,427 people	Bhutan
1860s	316,166 people	200,593 people	115,572 people	Bhutan
1870s	302,160 people	203,358 people	98,802 people	Bhutan
1880s	288,768 people	210,258 people	78,509 people	Bhutan
1890s	275,963 people	222,020 people	53,944 people	Bhutan
1900s	263,747 people	246,299 people	17,447 people	Bhutan
1910s	257,797 people	263,598 people	5,801 people	Luxembourg
1920s	258,029 people	282,419 people	24,390 people	Luxembourg
1930s	257,816 people	299,780 people	41,964 people	Luxembourg
1940s	214,720 people	298,149 people	83,429 people	Luxembourg
1950s	192,832 people	304,262 people	111,430 people	Luxembourg
1960s	258,696 people	327,259 people	68,563 people	Luxembourg
1970s	361,369 people	351,978 people	9,391 people	Bhutan
1980s	501,792 people	368,169 people	133,622 people	Bhutan
1990s	568,357 people	405,536 people	162,821 people	Bhutan
2000s	651,199 people	464,014 people	187,184 people	Bhutan
2010s	735,419 people	563,443 people	171,976 people	Bhutan
2020s	778,192 people	647,322 people	130,870 people	Bhutan

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher the global population hockey stick, Bhutan or Luxembourg?: Bhutan, at 786,386 people against 665,101 people in Luxembourg as of 2023.
What is the difference in the global population hockey stick between Bhutan and Luxembourg?: 121,285 people, with Bhutan ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Bhutan and Luxembourg?: 241 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2023.
How do Bhutan and Luxembourg rank globally for the global population hockey stick?: Bhutan ranks 167th and Luxembourg ranks 169th 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.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Bhutan vs Luxembourg: The global population hockey stick. Statizoid, drawing on HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Retrieved 07 September 2026, from https://population.statizoid.com/compare/world-population-over-the-last-12000-years-and-un-projection-until-2100/bhutan/luxembourg/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://population.statizoid.com/compare/world-population-over-the-last-12000-years-and-un-projection-until-2100/bhutan/luxembourg/">Bhutan vs Luxembourg: The global population hockey stick</a> — Statizoid

About this data

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.