The latest officially reported population of Croatia was 3,866,300 in 2024 vs 1,371,986 people in Estonia in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Croatia's population is 3,839,202 people compared to 1,355,535 in Estonia.
Population statistics:
- Croatia's population is 2.83 times bigger than Estonia's.
- Croatia is ranked the 129th most populous country in the world, while Estonia is the 155th.
- The countries together account for 0.06% of the world: 0.05% for Croatia vs 0.02% for Estonia.
- For the last 10 years, Croatia has had an average growth rate of -0.82% per year vs +0.37% in Estonia.
- Since 2005, the population of Croatia has decreased from 4.31M people to 3.84M (10.9% decline), while Estonia has grown from 1.35M to 1.36M (0.06% growth).
- Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 31.8% of the population in Croatia and 27% in Estonia.
Croatia vs Estonia: live population counter
Croatia
|
Estonia
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Current population |
3839202
|
1355535
|
| Population rank | 129/197 | 155/197 |
| Percent of world population | 0.05% | 0.02% |
| One net population change |
1.32 hours
|
5.15 hours
|
| One birth every |
16.4 minutes
|
47.9 minutes
|
| One death every |
10.2 minutes
|
32.8 minutes
|
| One migration net change every |
1.69 hours
|
1.13 hours
|
| Annual migration change | -5,186 | -7,742 |
| Daily growth/decline | +18 | +5 |
| Annual growth/decline | +6,614 | +1,700 |
| Annual growth/decline rate | +0.17% | +0.12% |
| Population growth rate rank | 155/197 | 157/197 |
Croatia and Estonia: population history and growth rate by year chart
Croatia
Population
Growth rate
Estonia
Population
Growth rate
| Year | Population | Growth rate | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Croatia
|
Estonia
|
Croatia
|
Estonia
|
|
| 1960 | 4,140,181 | 1,211,537 | - | - |
| 1961 | 4,167,292 | 1,225,077 | 0.65% | 1.12% |
| 1962 | 4,196,712 | 1,241,623 | 0.71% | 1.35% |
| 1963 | 4,225,675 | 1,258,857 | 0.69% | 1.39% |
| 1964 | 4,252,876 | 1,277,086 | 0.64% | 1.45% |
| 1965 | 4,280,923 | 1,294,566 | 0.66% | 1.37% |
| 1966 | 4,310,701 | 1,308,597 | 0.7% | 1.08% |
| 1967 | 4,338,683 | 1,318,946 | 0.65% | 0.79% |
| 1968 | 4,365,628 | 1,331,214 | 0.62% | 0.93% |
| 1969 | 4,391,490 | 1,345,249 | 0.59% | 1.05% |
| 1970 | 4,412,252 | 1,360,076 | 0.47% | 1.1% |
| 1971 | 4,431,275 | 1,376,955 | 0.43% | 1.24% |
| 1972 | 4,450,564 | 1,392,518 | 0.44% | 1.13% |
| 1973 | 4,470,161 | 1,405,951 | 0.44% | 0.96% |
| 1974 | 4,490,660 | 1,418,169 | 0.46% | 0.87% |
| 1975 | 4,512,082 | 1,429,352 | 0.48% | 0.79% |
| 1976 | 4,535,934 | 1,439,576 | 0.53% | 0.72% |
| 1977 | 4,559,571 | 1,450,211 | 0.52% | 0.74% |
| 1978 | 4,581,085 | 1,460,188 | 0.47% | 0.69% |
| 1979 | 4,594,778 | 1,468,333 | 0.3% | 0.56% |
| 1980 | 4,599,782 | 1,477,219 | 0.11% | 0.61% |
| 1981 | 4,611,509 | 1,487,666 | 0.25% | 0.71% |
| 1982 | 4,634,234 | 1,498,414 | 0.49% | 0.72% |
| 1983 | 4,658,254 | 1,508,745 | 0.52% | 0.69% |
| 1984 | 4,680,285 | 1,518,617 | 0.47% | 0.65% |
| 1985 | 4,701,417 | 1,528,781 | 0.45% | 0.67% |
| 1986 | 4,721,446 | 1,540,190 | 0.43% | 0.75% |
| 1987 | 4,739,745 | 1,552,221 | 0.39% | 0.78% |
| 1988 | 4,755,207 | 1,561,900 | 0.33% | 0.62% |
| 1989 | 4,767,260 | 1,568,131 | 0.25% | 0.4% |
| 1990 | 4,777,368 | 1,569,174 | 0.21% | 0.07% |
| 1991 | 4,689,022 | 1,561,314 | -1.85% | -0.5% |
| 1992 | 4,575,818 | 1,533,091 | -2.41% | -1.81% |
| 1993 | 4,600,463 | 1,494,128 | 0.54% | -2.54% |
| 1994 | 4,652,024 | 1,462,514 | 1.12% | -2.12% |
| 1995 | 4,620,030 | 1,436,634 | -0.69% | -1.77% |
| 1996 | 4,557,097 | 1,415,594 | -1.36% | -1.46% |
| 1997 | 4,534,920 | 1,399,535 | -0.49% | -1.13% |
| 1998 | 4,532,135 | 1,386,156 | -0.06% | -0.96% |
| 1999 | 4,512,597 | 1,390,244 | -0.43% | 0.29% |
| 2000 | 4,468,302 | 1,396,985 | -0.98% | 0.48% |
| 2001 | 4,299,642 | 1,388,115 | -3.77% | -0.63% |
| 2002 | 4,302,174 | 1,379,350 | 0.06% | -0.63% |
| 2003 | 4,303,399 | 1,370,720 | 0.03% | -0.63% |
| 2004 | 4,304,600 | 1,362,550 | 0.03% | -0.6% |
| 2005 | 4,310,145 | 1,354,775 | 0.13% | -0.57% |
| 2006 | 4,311,159 | 1,346,810 | 0.02% | -0.59% |
| 2007 | 4,310,217 | 1,340,680 | -0.02% | -0.46% |
| 2008 | 4,309,705 | 1,337,090 | -0.01% | -0.27% |
| 2009 | 4,305,181 | 1,334,515 | -0.1% | -0.19% |
| 2010 | 4,295,427 | 1,331,475 | -0.23% | -0.23% |
| 2011 | 4,280,622 | 1,327,439 | -0.34% | -0.3% |
| 2012 | 4,260,368 | 1,322,696 | -0.47% | -0.36% |
| 2013 | 4,233,922 | 1,317,997 | -0.62% | -0.36% |
| 2014 | 4,201,598 | 1,314,545 | -0.76% | -0.26% |
| 2015 | 4,151,725 | 1,315,407 | -1.19% | 0.07% |
| 2016 | 4,106,867 | 1,315,790 | -1.08% | 0.03% |
| 2017 | 4,041,407 | 1,317,384 | -1.59% | 0.12% |
| 2018 | 3,988,775 | 1,321,977 | -1.3% | 0.35% |
| 2019 | 3,949,390 | 1,326,898 | -0.99% | 0.37% |
| 2020 | 3,914,206 | 1,329,522 | -0.89% | 0.2% |
| 2021 | 3,878,981 | 1,330,932 | -0.9% | 0.11% |
| 2022 | 3,855,641 | 1,348,840 | -0.6% | 1.35% |
| 2023 | 3,859,686 | 1,370,286 | 0.1% | 1.59% |
| 2024 | 3,866,300 | 1,371,986 | 0.17% | 0.12% |
| 2025 | 3,839,202 | 1,355,535 | -0.7% | -1.2% |
| 2026 | 3,813,444 | 1,342,253 | -0.67% | -0.98% |
| 2027 | 3,788,509 | 1,335,097 | -0.65% | -0.53% |
| 2028 | 3,764,509 | 1,327,942 | -0.63% | -0.54% |
| 2029 | 3,740,864 | 1,320,819 | -0.63% | -0.54% |
| 2030 | 3,717,091 | 1,313,729 | -0.64% | -0.54% |
| 2031 | 3,693,060 | 1,306,620 | -0.65% | -0.54% |
| 2032 | 3,668,891 | 1,299,552 | -0.65% | -0.54% |
| 2033 | 3,645,252 | 1,292,576 | -0.64% | -0.54% |
| 2034 | 3,621,822 | 1,285,689 | -0.64% | -0.53% |
| 2035 | 3,598,817 | 1,278,930 | -0.64% | -0.53% |
| 2036 | 3,576,022 | 1,272,310 | -0.63% | -0.52% |
| 2037 | 3,552,470 | 1,265,820 | -0.66% | -0.51% |
| 2038 | 3,528,382 | 1,259,511 | -0.68% | -0.5% |
| 2039 | 3,504,319 | 1,253,315 | -0.68% | -0.49% |
| 2040 | 3,480,182 | 1,247,191 | -0.69% | -0.49% |
| 2041 | 3,455,709 | 1,241,077 | -0.7% | -0.49% |
| 2042 | 3,430,926 | 1,234,931 | -0.72% | -0.5% |
| 2043 | 3,406,019 | 1,228,790 | -0.73% | -0.5% |
| 2044 | 3,380,680 | 1,222,587 | -0.74% | -0.5% |
| 2045 | 3,355,131 | 1,216,327 | -0.76% | -0.51% |
| 2046 | 3,329,736 | 1,210,041 | -0.76% | -0.52% |
| 2047 | 3,304,173 | 1,203,693 | -0.77% | -0.52% |
| 2048 | 3,278,352 | 1,197,336 | -0.78% | -0.53% |
| 2049 | 3,252,533 | 1,190,841 | -0.79% | -0.54% |
| 2050 | 3,226,623 | 1,184,135 | -0.8% | -0.56% |
From 2005 to 2015, the population of Croatia decreased by 158,420 people (a 3.68% decline), while Estonia lost 39,368 people (a 2.91% decline).
For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Croatia lost -312,523 (a 7.53% decline), while Estonia's population increased by 40,128 (a 3.05% growth).
Croatia was ranked 117th most populous country in 2005 and is 129th in 2025. Estonia was ranked 149th in 2005 and ranked 155th now.
The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Croatia's population will shrink by 16% to 3,226,623 people with a rank change from 129th to 139th. The population of Estonia will decrease by 12.6% to 1,184,135 people and rank change from 155th to 159th.
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Population differences between Croatia and Estonia
|
Croatia
|
Estonia
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Life expectancy | 78.9 years | 79.5 years |
| Average age | 44.6 years | 43.1 years |
| Median age | 46 years | 43.3 years |
| Male:Female ratio | 48.2:51.8 | 47.5:52.5 |
| Fertility rate | 1.46 births per woman | 1.31 births per woman |
| Population density | 178.9 ppl/mi² | 83.2 ppl/mi² |
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