What is the difference in the global population hockey stick between Guatemala and Somalia?

233,800 people, with Somalia ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Guatemala and Somalia?

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.

Guatemala vs Somalia: The global population hockey stick

Guatemala

18.12 million people

in 2023

Somalia

18.36 million people

in 2023

Guatemala rank

70th

Somalia rank

69th

The global population hockey stick over time

Guatemala
Somalia

How they compare

Somalia currently reports 18.36 million people against 18.12 million people in Guatemala, a difference of 233,800 people.

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

Guatemala ranks 70th and Somalia ranks 69th of 239 countries.

Across the 40 decades both report, Guatemala averaged higher in 17 and Somalia in 23.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Guatemala	Somalia	Difference	Ahead
1000s	600,000 people	389,200 people	210,800 people	Guatemala
1100s	640,000 people	467,040 people	172,960 people	Guatemala
1200s	680,000 people	544,880 people	135,120 people	Guatemala
1300s	720,000 people	622,720 people	97,280 people	Guatemala
1400s	760,000 people	700,560 people	59,440 people	Guatemala
1500s	800,000 people	778,400 people	21,600 people	Guatemala
1600s	600,000 people	827,050 people	227,050 people	Somalia
1700s	699,752 people	875,700 people	175,948 people	Somalia
1710s	690,359 people	886,058 people	195,699 people	Somalia
1720s	681,092 people	896,416 people	215,324 people	Somalia
1730s	671,950 people	906,775 people	234,825 people	Somalia
1740s	662,931 people	917,133 people	254,202 people	Somalia
1750s	654,032 people	927,491 people	273,459 people	Somalia
1760s	645,253 people	937,850 people	292,597 people	Somalia
1770s	636,592 people	948,208 people	311,616 people	Somalia
1780s	628,047 people	958,566 people	330,519 people	Somalia
1790s	619,617 people	968,925 people	349,308 people	Somalia
1800s	491,115 people	990,855 people	499,740 people	Somalia
1810s	560,362 people	999,772 people	439,410 people	Somalia
1820s	619,342 people	1.06 million people	443,634 people	Somalia
1830s	673,955 people	1.21 million people	534,047 people	Somalia
1840s	769,301 people	1.37 million people	605,644 people	Somalia
1850s	899,844 people	1.47 million people	571,741 people	Somalia
1860s	1.02 million people	1.47 million people	446,090 people	Somalia
1870s	1.16 million people	1.47 million people	306,510 people	Somalia
1880s	1.31 million people	1.48 million people	163,093 people	Somalia
1890s	1.37 million people	1.50 million people	128,436 people	Somalia
1900s	1.41 million people	1.54 million people	127,729 people	Somalia
1910s	1.57 million people	1.57 million people	1,106 people	Somalia
1920s	1.74 million people	1.66 million people	82,861 people	Guatemala
1930s	2.04 million people	1.82 million people	223,401 people	Guatemala
1940s	2.64 million people	2.03 million people	602,815 people	Guatemala
1950s	3.50 million people	2.50 million people	997,111 people	Guatemala
1960s	4.65 million people	3.24 million people	1.40 million people	Guatemala
1970s	6.05 million people	4.31 million people	1.74 million people	Guatemala
1980s	7.78 million people	6.58 million people	1.20 million people	Guatemala
1990s	10.20 million people	7.34 million people	2.85 million people	Guatemala
2000s	12.95 million people	10.43 million people	2.52 million people	Guatemala
2010s	15.82 million people	13.78 million people	2.04 million people	Guatemala
2020s	17.73 million people	17.52 million people	211,400 people	Guatemala

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher the global population hockey stick, Guatemala or Somalia?: Somalia, at 18.36 million people against 18.12 million people in Guatemala as of 2023.
What is the difference in the global population hockey stick between Guatemala and Somalia?: 233,800 people, with Somalia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Guatemala and Somalia?: 241 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2023.
How do Guatemala and Somalia rank globally for the global population hockey stick?: Guatemala ranks 70th and Somalia ranks 69th 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.