What is the difference in the global population hockey stick between Canada and Yemen?

91,700 people, with Yemen ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and Yemen?

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.

Canada vs Yemen: The global population hockey stick

Canada

39.30 million people

in 2023

Yemen

39.39 million people

in 2023

Canada rank

39th

Yemen rank

38th

The global population hockey stick over time

Canada
Yemen

How they compare

Yemen currently reports 39.39 million people against 39.30 million people in Canada, a difference of 91,700 people.

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

Canada ranks 39th and Yemen ranks 38th of 239 countries.

Across the 40 decades both report, Canada averaged higher in 18 and Yemen in 22.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Canada	Yemen	Difference	Ahead
1000s	100,000 people	2.25 million people	2.15 million people	Yemen
1100s	120,000 people	2.00 million people	1.88 million people	Yemen
1200s	140,000 people	2.10 million people	1.96 million people	Yemen
1300s	160,000 people	2.20 million people	2.04 million people	Yemen
1400s	180,000 people	2.05 million people	1.87 million people	Yemen
1500s	200,000 people	2.25 million people	2.05 million people	Yemen
1600s	200,000 people	2.50 million people	2.30 million people	Yemen
1700s	200,000 people	2.25 million people	2.05 million people	Yemen
1710s	227,285 people	2.26 million people	2.03 million people	Yemen
1720s	264,289 people	2.29 million people	2.02 million people	Yemen
1730s	308,210 people	2.32 million people	2.01 million people	Yemen
1740s	360,422 people	2.34 million people	1.98 million people	Yemen
1750s	422,573 people	2.37 million people	1.95 million people	Yemen
1760s	496,640 people	2.40 million people	1.91 million people	Yemen
1770s	584,998 people	2.43 million people	1.85 million people	Yemen
1780s	690,496 people	2.47 million people	1.78 million people	Yemen
1790s	816,554 people	2.50 million people	1.68 million people	Yemen
1800s	559,636 people	2.59 million people	2.03 million people	Yemen
1810s	715,556 people	2.59 million people	1.88 million people	Yemen
1820s	966,397 people	2.61 million people	1.65 million people	Yemen
1830s	1.39 million people	2.66 million people	1.27 million people	Yemen
1840s	2.03 million people	2.71 million people	681,741 people	Yemen
1850s	2.86 million people	2.76 million people	98,271 people	Canada
1860s	3.53 million people	2.80 million people	727,895 people	Canada
1870s	4.01 million people	2.84 million people	1.17 million people	Canada
1880s	4.56 million people	2.89 million people	1.67 million people	Canada
1890s	5.07 million people	2.93 million people	2.14 million people	Canada
1900s	6.08 million people	3.08 million people	3.01 million people	Canada
1910s	7.70 million people	3.36 million people	4.34 million people	Canada
1920s	9.30 million people	3.69 million people	5.61 million people	Canada
1930s	10.74 million people	4.05 million people	6.69 million people	Canada
1940s	12.40 million people	4.45 million people	7.95 million people	Canada
1950s	15.57 million people	4.99 million people	10.58 million people	Canada
1960s	19.50 million people	6.16 million people	13.34 million people	Canada
1970s	22.95 million people	8.07 million people	14.88 million people	Canada
1980s	25.86 million people	11.33 million people	14.53 million people	Canada
1990s	29.26 million people	16.44 million people	12.82 million people	Canada
2000s	32.32 million people	22.59 million people	9.72 million people	Canada
2010s	35.88 million people	30.79 million people	5.09 million people	Canada
2020s	38.69 million people	37.72 million people	964,400 people	Canada

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher the global population hockey stick, Canada or Yemen?: Yemen, at 39.39 million people against 39.30 million people in Canada as of 2023.
What is the difference in the global population hockey stick between Canada and Yemen?: 91,700 people, with Yemen ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and Yemen?: 241 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2023.
How do Canada and Yemen rank globally for the global population hockey stick?: Canada ranks 39th and Yemen ranks 38th 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.