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Croatia

3,876,200

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+10K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000-13.3%from 4.47M
Life expectancy78.9 years2024
Fertility rate1.46births per woman · 2024
Urban population57.8%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Croatia is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1413.7%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6462.7%Working-age population
Ages 65+23.6%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate8.3births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate13.2deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-4.9births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-3.48Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Croatia look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 3.23M in 2050—16.5% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20243.88M
  2. 20503.23M
  3. 21002.14M
Median age in 205049.1years
Births in 205025.16Kduring the year
Deaths in 205050.54Kduring the year
Life expectancy82.9years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19604.14M
  2. 19704.41M
  3. 19804.6M
  4. 19904.78M
  5. 20004.47M
  6. 20104.3M
  7. 20203.91M
  8. 20253.88M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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