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	83,177,813	-0.6%	-0.02%
2023	3,859,686	83,287,273	0.1%	0.13%
2024	3,866,200	83,516,593	0.17%	0.28%
2025	3,839,102	83,045,276	-0.7%	-0.56%
2026	3,813,345	82,619,736	-0.67%	-0.51%
2027	3,788,411	82,420,656	-0.65%	-0.24%
2028	3,764,412	82,209,650	-0.63%	-0.26%
2029	3,740,768	81,988,746	-0.63%	-0.27%
2030	3,716,995	81,767,011	-0.64%	-0.27%
2031	3,692,964	81,541,291	-0.65%	-0.28%
2032	3,668,796	81,315,327	-0.65%	-0.28%
2033	3,645,158	81,094,150	-0.64%	-0.27%
2034	3,621,729	80,879,704	-0.64%	-0.26%
2035	3,598,724	80,669,570	-0.64%	-0.26%
2036	3,575,930	80,445,835	-0.63%	-0.28%
2037	3,552,378	80,222,108	-0.66%	-0.28%
2038	3,528,291	80,001,936	-0.68%	-0.27%
2039	3,504,229	79,780,699	-0.68%	-0.28%
2040	3,480,092	79,565,092	-0.69%	-0.27%
2041	3,455,620	79,361,541	-0.7%	-0.26%
2042	3,430,837	79,167,400	-0.72%	-0.24%
2043	3,405,931	78,962,964	-0.73%	-0.26%
2044	3,380,593	78,743,160	-0.74%	-0.28%
2045	3,355,044	78,518,131	-0.76%	-0.29%
2046	3,329,650	78,293,579	-0.76%	-0.29%
2047	3,304,087	78,066,226	-0.77%	-0.29%
2048	3,278,267	77,826,011	-0.78%	-0.31%
2049	3,252,449	77,578,876	-0.79%	-0.32%
2050	3,226,539	77,335,610	-0.8%	-0.31%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Croatia decreased by 204,292 people (a 4.74% decline), while Germany lost 27,782 people (a 0.03% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Croatia lost -293,522 (a 7.15% decline), while Germany's population increased by 271,067 (a 0.33% growth).

Croatia was ranked 120th most populous country in 2006 and is 129th in 2026. Germany was ranked 14th in 2006 and ranked 19th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Croatia's population will shrink by 15.4% to 3,226,539 people with a rank change from 129th to 139th. The population of Germany will decrease by 6.4% to 77,335,610 people and rank change from 19th to 24th.