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Population in Croatia compared to France: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Croatia was 3,866,300 in 2024 vs 68,516,699 people in France in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Croatia's population is 3,839,202 people compared to 68,701,054 in France.

Population statistics:

  • France's population is 17.9 times bigger than Croatia's.
  • Croatia is ranked the 129th most populous country in the world, while France is the 23rd.
  • The countries together account for 0.88% of the world: 0.05% for Croatia vs 0.83% for France.
  • For the last 10 years, Croatia has had an average growth rate of -0.82% per year vs +0.34% in France.
  • Since 2005, the population of Croatia has decreased from 4.31M people to 3.84M (10.9% decline), while France has grown from 63.2M to 68.7M (8.74% growth).
  • France is projected to reach its peak in 2095 at 70.6M people, while Croatia's population already peaked in 1990 at 4.78M people and is projected to decrease to 2.14M people by 2100.

Croatia vs France: live population counter

Croatia France
Current population
3839202
68701054
Population rank 129/197 23/197
Percent of world population 0.05% 0.83%
One net population change
1.32 hours
2.29 minutes
One birth every
16.4 minutes
46.6 seconds
One death every
10.2 minutes
50.2 seconds
One migration net change every
1.69 hours
5.81 minutes
Annual migration change -5,186 +90,527
Daily growth/decline +18 +628
Annual growth/decline +6,614 +229,212
Annual growth/decline rate +0.17% +0.34%
Population growth rate rank 155/197 147/197

Croatia and France: population history and growth rate by year chart

Croatia
Population

Growth rate
France
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Croatia France Croatia France
1960 4,140,181 47,412,964 - -
1961 4,167,292 47,905,982 0.65% 1.04%
1962 4,196,712 48,389,516 0.71% 1.01%
1963 4,225,675 48,877,567 0.69% 1.01%
1964 4,252,876 49,401,492 0.64% 1.07%
1965 4,280,923 49,877,725 0.66% 0.96%
1966 4,310,701 50,311,637 0.7% 0.87%
1967 4,338,683 50,722,791 0.65% 0.82%
1968 4,365,628 51,112,980 0.62% 0.77%
1969 4,391,490 51,536,014 0.59% 0.83%
1970 4,412,252 52,007,169 0.47% 0.91%
1971 4,431,275 52,499,553 0.43% 0.95%
1972 4,450,564 52,962,356 0.44% 0.88%
1973 4,470,161 53,392,161 0.44% 0.81%
1974 4,490,660 53,746,571 0.46% 0.66%
1975 4,512,082 54,002,853 0.48% 0.48%
1976 4,535,934 54,232,383 0.53% 0.43%
1977 4,559,571 54,486,467 0.52% 0.47%
1978 4,581,085 54,734,030 0.47% 0.45%
1979 4,594,778 54,979,851 0.3% 0.45%
1980 4,599,782 55,274,184 0.11% 0.54%
1981 4,611,509 55,603,353 0.25% 0.6%
1982 4,634,234 55,806,789 0.49% 0.37%
1983 4,658,254 56,108,330 0.52% 0.54%
1984 4,680,285 56,383,085 0.47% 0.49%
1985 4,701,417 56,665,619 0.45% 0.5%
1986 4,721,446 56,956,002 0.43% 0.51%
1987 4,739,745 57,266,167 0.39% 0.54%
1988 4,755,207 57,598,186 0.33% 0.58%
1989 4,767,260 57,943,062 0.25% 0.6%
1990 4,777,368 58,261,012 0.21% 0.55%
1991 4,689,022 58,554,242 -1.85% 0.5%
1992 4,575,818 58,846,584 -2.41% 0.5%
1993 4,600,463 59,103,094 0.54% 0.44%
1994 4,652,024 59,324,863 1.12% 0.38%
1995 4,620,030 59,541,294 -0.69% 0.36%
1996 4,557,097 59,754,504 -1.36% 0.36%
1997 4,534,920 59,968,066 -0.49% 0.36%
1998 4,532,135 60,190,684 -0.06% 0.37%
1999 4,512,597 60,501,986 -0.43% 0.52%
2000 4,468,302 60,918,661 -0.98% 0.69%
2001 4,299,642 61,364,377 -3.77% 0.73%
2002 4,302,174 61,812,142 0.06% 0.73%
2003 4,303,399 62,249,855 0.03% 0.71%
2004 4,304,600 62,707,588 0.03% 0.74%
2005 4,310,145 63,180,854 0.13% 0.75%
2006 4,311,159 63,622,342 0.02% 0.7%
2007 4,310,217 64,016,890 -0.02% 0.62%
2008 4,309,705 64,375,116 -0.01% 0.56%
2009 4,305,181 64,706,436 -0.1% 0.51%
2010 4,295,427 65,026,211 -0.23% 0.49%
2011 4,280,622 65,340,830 -0.34% 0.48%
2012 4,260,368 65,657,659 -0.47% 0.48%
2013 4,233,922 65,997,932 -0.62% 0.52%
2014 4,201,598 66,312,067 -0.76% 0.48%
2015 4,151,725 66,548,272 -1.19% 0.36%
2016 4,106,867 66,724,104 -1.08% 0.26%
2017 4,041,407 66,918,020 -1.59% 0.29%
2018 3,988,775 67,158,348 -1.3% 0.36%
2019 3,949,390 67,382,061 -0.99% 0.33%
2020 3,914,206 67,601,110 -0.89% 0.33%
2021 3,878,981 67,842,811 -0.9% 0.36%
2022 3,855,641 68,065,015 -0.6% 0.33%
2023 3,859,686 68,287,487 0.1% 0.33%
2024 3,866,300 68,516,699 0.17% 0.34%
2025 3,839,202 68,621,995 -0.7% 0.15%
2026 3,813,444 68,720,416 -0.67% 0.14%
2027 3,788,509 68,814,997 -0.65% 0.14%
2028 3,764,509 68,908,044 -0.63% 0.14%
2029 3,740,864 69,000,393 -0.63% 0.13%
2030 3,717,091 69,092,395 -0.64% 0.13%
2031 3,693,060 69,182,139 -0.65% 0.13%
2032 3,668,891 69,271,844 -0.65% 0.13%
2033 3,645,252 69,361,763 -0.64% 0.13%
2034 3,621,822 69,453,221 -0.64% 0.13%
2035 3,598,817 69,545,666 -0.64% 0.13%
2036 3,576,022 69,635,631 -0.63% 0.13%
2037 3,552,470 69,723,960 -0.66% 0.13%
2038 3,528,382 69,807,163 -0.68% 0.12%
2039 3,504,319 69,880,758 -0.68% 0.11%
2040 3,480,182 69,948,192 -0.69% 0.1%
2041 3,455,709 70,013,748 -0.7% 0.09%
2042 3,430,926 70,076,842 -0.72% 0.09%
2043 3,406,019 70,130,305 -0.73% 0.08%
2044 3,380,680 70,172,822 -0.74% 0.06%
2045 3,355,131 70,207,698 -0.76% 0.05%
2046 3,329,736 70,232,113 -0.76% 0.03%
2047 3,304,173 70,246,945 -0.77% 0.02%
2048 3,278,352 70,253,351 -0.78% 0.009%
2049 3,252,533 70,249,312 -0.79% -0.006%
2050 3,226,623 70,237,272 -0.8% -0.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Croatia decreased by 158,420 people (a 3.68% decline), while France gained 3,367,418 people (a 5.33% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Croatia lost -312,523 (a 7.53% decline), while France's population increased by 2,152,782 (a 3.23% growth).

Croatia was ranked 117th most populous country in 2005 and is 129th in 2025. France was ranked 20th in 2005 and ranked 23rd 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 France will increase by 2.24% to 70,237,272 people and rank change from 23rd to 30th.

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