Population — national citizens

In 2022, Croatia's population decreased by 1.0% compared to 2021, reaching 3,826,213.

Croatia accounts for 0.9% of the EU-27 total of 408,287,841.

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 5.6% (from 4,053,451 in 2017).

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