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

759,900 people, with Romania ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Romania 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.

Romania vs Somalia: The global population hockey stick

Romania

19.12 million people

in 2023

Somalia

18.36 million people

in 2023

Romania rank

68th

Somalia rank

69th

The global population hockey stick over time

Romania
Somalia

How they compare

Romania currently reports 19.12 million people against 18.36 million people in Somalia, a difference of 759,900 people.

Across all 241 years both countries report, Romania has been ahead every year.

Romania ranks 68th and Somalia ranks 69th of 239 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade	Romania	Somalia	Difference	Ahead
1000s	800,000 people	389,200 people	410,800 people	Romania
1100s	900,000 people	467,040 people	432,960 people	Romania
1200s	1.00 million people	544,880 people	455,120 people	Romania
1300s	1.50 million people	622,720 people	877,280 people	Romania
1400s	1.25 million people	700,560 people	549,440 people	Romania
1500s	2.00 million people	778,400 people	1.22 million people	Romania
1600s	2.00 million people	827,050 people	1.17 million people	Romania
1700s	2.50 million people	875,700 people	1.62 million people	Romania
1710s	2.99 million people	886,058 people	2.11 million people	Romania
1720s	3.20 million people	896,416 people	2.31 million people	Romania
1730s	3.43 million people	906,775 people	2.53 million people	Romania
1740s	3.68 million people	917,133 people	2.76 million people	Romania
1750s	3.94 million people	927,491 people	3.01 million people	Romania
1760s	4.22 million people	937,850 people	3.29 million people	Romania
1770s	4.52 million people	948,208 people	3.58 million people	Romania
1780s	4.85 million people	958,566 people	3.89 million people	Romania
1790s	5.19 million people	968,925 people	4.23 million people	Romania
1800s	5.69 million people	990,855 people	4.70 million people	Romania
1810s	6.13 million people	999,772 people	5.13 million people	Romania
1820s	6.61 million people	1.06 million people	5.55 million people	Romania
1830s	7.12 million people	1.21 million people	5.92 million people	Romania
1840s	7.68 million people	1.37 million people	6.30 million people	Romania
1850s	8.25 million people	1.47 million people	6.78 million people	Romania
1860s	8.84 million people	1.47 million people	7.37 million people	Romania
1870s	9.43 million people	1.47 million people	7.97 million people	Romania
1880s	10.03 million people	1.48 million people	8.55 million people	Romania
1890s	10.65 million people	1.50 million people	9.15 million people	Romania
1900s	11.38 million people	1.54 million people	9.84 million people	Romania
1910s	12.07 million people	1.57 million people	10.50 million people	Romania
1920s	13.13 million people	1.66 million people	11.47 million people	Romania
1930s	14.90 million people	1.82 million people	13.09 million people	Romania
1940s	16.07 million people	2.03 million people	14.03 million people	Romania
1950s	17.35 million people	2.50 million people	14.84 million people	Romania
1960s	18.80 million people	3.24 million people	15.56 million people	Romania
1970s	21.10 million people	4.31 million people	16.80 million people	Romania
1980s	22.55 million people	6.58 million people	15.97 million people	Romania
1990s	22.65 million people	7.34 million people	15.30 million people	Romania
2000s	21.31 million people	10.43 million people	10.88 million people	Romania
2010s	19.93 million people	13.78 million people	6.15 million people	Romania
2020s	19.23 million people	17.52 million people	1.71 million people	Romania

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher the global population hockey stick, Romania or Somalia?: Romania, at 19.12 million people against 18.36 million people in Somalia as of 2023.
What is the difference in the global population hockey stick between Romania and Somalia?: 759,900 people, with Romania ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Romania and Somalia?: 241 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2023.
How do Romania and Somalia rank globally for the global population hockey stick?: Romania ranks 68th 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.