Population — national citizens

In 2025, Croatia's population decreased by 0.7% compared to 2024, reaching 3,720,379.

Croatia accounts for 0.9% of the EU-27 total of 405,729,577.

Croatia ranks 19th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 4.8% (from 3,908,418 in 2020).

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