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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Croatia	Germany	Croatia	Germany
1960	4,140,181	72,814,900	-	-
1961	4,167,292	73,377,632	0.65%	0.77%
1962	4,196,712	74,025,784	0.71%	0.88%
1963	4,225,675	74,714,353	0.69%	0.93%
1964	4,252,876	75,318,337	0.64%	0.81%
1965	4,280,923	75,963,695	0.66%	0.86%
1966	4,310,701	76,600,311	0.7%	0.84%
1967	4,338,683	76,951,336	0.65%	0.46%
1968	4,365,628	77,294,314	0.62%	0.45%
1969	4,391,490	77,909,682	0.59%	0.8%
1970	4,412,252	78,169,289	0.47%	0.33%
1971	4,431,275	78,312,842	0.43%	0.18%
1972	4,450,564	78,688,452	0.44%	0.48%
1973	4,470,161	78,936,666	0.44%	0.32%
1974	4,490,660	78,967,433	0.46%	0.04%
1975	4,512,082	78,673,554	0.48%	-0.37%
1976	4,535,934	78,336,950	0.53%	-0.43%
1977	4,559,571	78,159,814	0.52%	-0.23%
1978	4,581,085	78,091,820	0.47%	-0.09%
1979	4,594,778	78,126,350	0.3%	0.04%
1980	4,599,782	78,288,576	0.11%	0.21%
1981	4,611,509	78,407,907	0.25%	0.15%
1982	4,634,234	78,333,366	0.49%	-0.1%
1983	4,658,254	78,128,282	0.52%	-0.26%
1984	4,680,285	77,858,685	0.47%	-0.35%
1985	4,701,417	77,684,873	0.45%	-0.22%
1986	4,721,446	77,720,436	0.43%	0.05%
1987	4,739,745	77,839,920	0.39%	0.15%
1988	4,755,207	78,144,619	0.33%	0.39%
1989	4,767,260	78,751,283	0.25%	0.78%
1990	4,777,368	79,433,029	0.21%	0.87%
1991	4,689,022	80,013,896	-1.85%	0.73%
1992	4,575,818	80,624,598	-2.41%	0.76%
1993	4,600,463	81,156,363	0.54%	0.66%
1994	4,652,024	81,438,348	1.12%	0.35%
1995	4,620,030	81,678,051	-0.69%	0.29%
1996	4,557,097	81,914,831	-1.36%	0.29%
1997	4,534,920	82,034,771	-0.49%	0.15%
1998	4,532,135	82,047,195	-0.06%	0.02%
1999	4,512,597	82,100,243	-0.43%	0.06%
2000	4,468,302	82,211,508	-0.98%	0.14%
2001	4,299,642	82,349,925	-3.77%	0.17%
2002	4,302,174	82,488,495	0.06%	0.17%
2003	4,303,399	82,534,176	0.03%	0.06%
2004	4,304,600	82,516,260	0.03%	-0.02%
2005	4,310,145	82,469,422	0.13%	-0.06%
2006	4,311,159	82,376,451	0.02%	-0.11%
2007	4,310,217	82,266,372	-0.02%	-0.13%
2008	4,309,705	82,110,097	-0.01%	-0.19%
2009	4,305,181	81,902,307	-0.1%	-0.25%
2010	4,295,427	81,776,930	-0.23%	-0.15%
2011	4,280,622	80,274,983	-0.34%	-1.84%
2012	4,260,368	80,425,823	-0.47%	0.19%
2013	4,233,922	80,645,605	-0.62%	0.27%
2014	4,201,598	80,982,500	-0.76%	0.42%
2015	4,151,725	81,686,611	-1.19%	0.87%
2016	4,106,867	82,348,669	-1.08%	0.81%
2017	4,041,407	82,657,002	-1.59%	0.37%
2018	3,988,775	82,905,782	-1.3%	0.3%
2019	3,949,390	83,092,962	-0.99%	0.23%
2020	3,914,206	83,160,871	-0.89%	0.08%
2021	3,878,981	83,196,078	-0.9%	0.04%
2022	3,855,641	83,797,985	-0.6%	0.72%
2023	3,859,686	83,901,923	0.1%	0.12%
2024	3,866,300	83,510,950	0.17%	-0.47%
2025	3,839,202	83,039,665	-0.7%	-0.56%
2026	3,813,444	82,614,154	-0.67%	-0.51%
2027	3,788,509	82,415,087	-0.65%	-0.24%
2028	3,764,509	82,204,095	-0.63%	-0.26%
2029	3,740,864	81,983,207	-0.63%	-0.27%
2030	3,717,091	81,761,486	-0.64%	-0.27%
2031	3,693,060	81,535,782	-0.65%	-0.28%
2032	3,668,891	81,309,833	-0.65%	-0.28%
2033	3,645,252	81,088,671	-0.64%	-0.27%
2034	3,621,822	80,874,239	-0.64%	-0.26%
2035	3,598,817	80,664,119	-0.64%	-0.26%
2036	3,576,022	80,440,400	-0.63%	-0.28%
2037	3,552,470	80,216,687	-0.66%	-0.28%
2038	3,528,382	79,996,530	-0.68%	-0.27%
2039	3,504,319	79,775,309	-0.68%	-0.28%
2040	3,480,182	79,559,716	-0.69%	-0.27%
2041	3,455,709	79,356,179	-0.7%	-0.26%
2042	3,430,926	79,162,051	-0.72%	-0.24%
2043	3,406,019	78,957,628	-0.73%	-0.26%
2044	3,380,680	78,737,840	-0.74%	-0.28%
2045	3,355,131	78,512,825	-0.76%	-0.29%
2046	3,329,736	78,288,289	-0.76%	-0.29%
2047	3,304,173	78,060,952	-0.77%	-0.29%
2048	3,278,352	77,820,753	-0.78%	-0.31%
2049	3,252,533	77,573,634	-0.79%	-0.32%
2050	3,226,623	77,330,385	-0.8%	-0.31%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Croatia decreased by 158,420 people (a 3.68% decline), while Germany lost 782,811 people (a 0.95% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Croatia lost -312,523 (a 7.53% decline), while Germany's population increased by 1,353,054 (a 1.66% growth).

Croatia was ranked 117th most populous country in 2005 and is 129th in 2025. Germany was ranked 13th in 2005 and ranked 19th 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 Germany will decrease by 6.88% to 77,330,385 people and rank change from 19th to 24th.