Population — national citizens

In 2021, Croatia's population decreased by 1.1% compared to 2020, reaching 3,866,581.

Croatia accounts for 0.9% of the EU-27 total of 408,574,754.

Croatia ranks 20th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 5.8% (from 4,105,450 in 2016).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.