Population — national citizens

In 2024, Croatia's population decreased by 0.9% compared to 2023, reaching 3,746,587.

Croatia accounts for 0.9% of the EU-27 total of 406,216,013.

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 5.0% (from 3,944,089 in 2019).

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