Population — national citizens

In 2023, Croatia's population decreased by 1.2% compared to 2022, reaching 3,780,514.

Croatia accounts for 0.9% of the EU-27 total of 407,021,139.

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 5.2% (from 3,989,351 in 2018).

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