Population (total, 1 January)

In 2025, Croatia's population (total, 1 january) increased by 0.3% compared to 2024, reaching 3,874,350.

Croatia accounts for 0.9% of the EU-27 total of 450,646,971.

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 1.5% (from 3,933,511 in 2020).

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