What is the difference in the global population hockey stick between Bolivia, Plurinational State of and Burundi?

1.45 million people, with Burundi ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Bolivia, Plurinational State of and Burundi?

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.

Bolivia, Plurinational State of vs Burundi: The global population hockey stick

Bolivia, Plurinational State of

12.24 million people

in 2023

Burundi

13.69 million people

in 2023

Bolivia, Plurinational State of rank

80th

Burundi rank

79th

The global population hockey stick over time

Bolivia, Plurinational State of
Burundi

How they compare

Burundi currently reports 13.69 million people against 12.24 million people in Bolivia, Plurinational State of, a difference of 1.45 million people.

That makes Burundi's figure about 1.1 times Bolivia, Plurinational State of's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Bolivia, Plurinational State of ahead.

Bolivia, Plurinational State of ranks 80th and Burundi ranks 79th of 239 countries.

Across the 40 decades both report, Bolivia, Plurinational State of averaged higher in 34 and Burundi in 6.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	Burundi	Difference	Ahead
1000s	600,000 people	312,000 people	288,000 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1100s	660,000 people	379,600 people	280,400 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1200s	720,000 people	447,200 people	272,800 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1300s	780,000 people	514,800 people	265,200 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1400s	840,000 people	582,400 people	257,600 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1500s	900,000 people	650,000 people	250,000 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1600s	800,000 people	715,000 people	85,000 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1700s	800,057 people	780,000 people	20,057 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1710s	815,296 people	745,062 people	70,234 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1720s	830,825 people	753,857 people	76,968 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1730s	846,651 people	763,147 people	83,504 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1740s	862,777 people	772,985 people	89,792 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1750s	879,211 people	783,431 people	95,780 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1760s	895,958 people	794,555 people	101,403 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1770s	913,024 people	806,439 people	106,585 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1780s	930,415 people	819,182 people	111,233 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1790s	948,137 people	832,901 people	115,236 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1800s	931,454 people	899,097 people	32,357 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1810s	1.04 million people	899,369 people	137,957 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1820s	1.14 million people	964,052 people	173,295 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1830s	1.23 million people	1.12 million people	106,374 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1840s	1.32 million people	1.30 million people	19,782 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1850s	1.41 million people	1.44 million people	29,611 people	Burundi
1860s	1.49 million people	1.51 million people	17,677 people	Burundi
1870s	1.35 million people	1.59 million people	237,119 people	Burundi
1880s	1.28 million people	1.68 million people	399,284 people	Burundi
1890s	1.61 million people	1.69 million people	74,005 people	Burundi
1900s	1.91 million people	1.56 million people	342,458 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1910s	2.17 million people	1.45 million people	714,713 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1920s	2.49 million people	1.52 million people	970,255 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1930s	2.79 million people	1.75 million people	1.04 million people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1940s	3.01 million people	2.05 million people	960,800 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1950s	3.34 million people	2.48 million people	859,552 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1960s	4.08 million people	3.10 million people	975,175 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1970s	5.09 million people	3.80 million people	1.29 million people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1980s	6.36 million people	4.96 million people	1.40 million people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
1990s	7.80 million people	5.93 million people	1.87 million people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
2000s	9.29 million people	7.54 million people	1.76 million people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
2010s	10.93 million people	10.83 million people	98,447 people	Bolivia, Plurinational State of
2020s	12.02 million people	13.15 million people	1.13 million people	Burundi

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher the global population hockey stick, Bolivia, Plurinational State of or Burundi?: Burundi, at 13.69 million people against 12.24 million people in Bolivia, Plurinational State of as of 2023.
What is the difference in the global population hockey stick between Bolivia, Plurinational State of and Burundi?: 1.45 million people, with Burundi ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Bolivia, Plurinational State of and Burundi?: 241 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2023.
How do Bolivia, Plurinational State of and Burundi rank globally for the global population hockey stick?: Bolivia, Plurinational State of ranks 80th and Burundi ranks 79th 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.