Population (total, 1 January)

In 2024, Croatia's population (total, 1 january) increased by 0.3% compared to 2023, reaching 3,861,967.

Croatia accounts for 0.9% of the EU-27 total of 449,306,184.

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 2.7% (from 3,968,676 in 2019).

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