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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Croatia was 3,866,300 in 2024 vs 677,717 people in Luxembourg in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Croatia's population is 3,839,202 people compared to 690,832 in Luxembourg.

Population statistics:

  • Croatia's population is 5.56 times bigger than Luxembourg's.
  • Croatia is ranked the 129th most populous country in the world, while Luxembourg is the 164th.
  • The countries together account for 0.05% of the world: 0.05% for Croatia vs 0.008% for Luxembourg.
  • For the last 10 years, Croatia has had an average growth rate of -0.82% per year vs +2.03% in Luxembourg.
  • Since 2005, the population of Croatia has decreased from 4.31M people to 3.84M (10.9% decline), while Luxembourg has grown from 465K to 691K (48.5% growth).
  • Luxembourg is projected to reach its peak in 2061 at 806K 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 Luxembourg: live population counter

Croatia Luxembourg
Current population
3839202
690832
Population rank 129/197 164/197
Percent of world population 0.05% 0.008%
One net population change
1.32 hours
46.6 minutes
One birth every
16.4 minutes
1.38 hours
One death every
10.2 minutes
1.99 hours
One migration net change every
1.69 hours
1.54 hours
Annual migration change -5,186 +5,677
Daily growth/decline +18 +31
Annual growth/decline +6,614 +11,287
Annual growth/decline rate +0.17% +1.69%
Population growth rate rank 155/197 68/197

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

Croatia
Population

Growth rate
Luxembourg
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Croatia Luxembourg Croatia Luxembourg
1960 4,140,181 313,970 - -
1961 4,167,292 316,845 0.65% 0.92%
1962 4,196,712 320,750 0.71% 1.23%
1963 4,225,675 324,100 0.69% 1.04%
1964 4,252,876 327,750 0.64% 1.13%
1965 4,280,923 331,500 0.66% 1.14%
1966 4,310,701 333,895 0.7% 0.72%
1967 4,338,683 334,995 0.65% 0.33%
1968 4,365,628 335,850 0.62% 0.26%
1969 4,391,490 337,500 0.59% 0.49%
1970 4,412,252 339,171 0.47% 0.5%
1971 4,431,275 342,421 0.43% 0.96%
1972 4,450,564 346,600 0.44% 1.22%
1973 4,470,161 350,450 0.44% 1.11%
1974 4,490,660 355,050 0.46% 1.31%
1975 4,512,082 358,950 0.48% 1.1%
1976 4,535,934 360,731 0.53% 0.5%
1977 4,559,571 361,358 0.52% 0.17%
1978 4,581,085 362,007 0.47% 0.18%
1979 4,594,778 362,856 0.3% 0.23%
1980 4,599,782 364,150 0.11% 0.36%
1981 4,611,509 365,225 0.25% 0.3%
1982 4,634,234 365,525 0.49% 0.08%
1983 4,658,254 365,622 0.52% 0.03%
1984 4,680,285 365,998 0.47% 0.1%
1985 4,701,417 366,706 0.45% 0.19%
1986 4,721,446 368,355 0.43% 0.45%
1987 4,739,745 370,750 0.39% 0.65%
1988 4,755,207 373,450 0.33% 0.73%
1989 4,767,260 377,100 0.25% 0.98%
1990 4,777,368 381,850 0.21% 1.26%
1991 4,689,022 387,000 -1.85% 1.35%
1992 4,575,818 392,175 -2.41% 1.34%
1993 4,600,463 397,475 0.54% 1.35%
1994 4,652,024 402,925 1.12% 1.37%
1995 4,620,030 408,625 -0.69% 1.41%
1996 4,557,097 414,225 -1.36% 1.37%
1997 4,534,920 419,450 -0.49% 1.26%
1998 4,532,135 424,700 -0.06% 1.25%
1999 4,512,597 430,475 -0.43% 1.36%
2000 4,468,302 436,300 -0.98% 1.35%
2001 4,299,642 441,525 -3.77% 1.2%
2002 4,302,174 446,175 0.06% 1.05%
2003 4,303,399 451,630 0.03% 1.22%
2004 4,304,600 458,095 0.03% 1.43%
2005 4,310,145 465,158 0.13% 1.54%
2006 4,311,159 472,637 0.02% 1.61%
2007 4,310,217 479,993 -0.02% 1.56%
2008 4,309,705 488,650 -0.01% 1.8%
2009 4,305,181 497,783 -0.1% 1.87%
2010 4,295,427 506,953 -0.23% 1.84%
2011 4,280,622 518,347 -0.34% 2.25%
2012 4,260,368 530,946 -0.47% 2.43%
2013 4,233,922 543,360 -0.62% 2.34%
2014 4,201,598 556,319 -0.76% 2.38%
2015 4,151,725 569,604 -1.19% 2.39%
2016 4,106,867 582,014 -1.08% 2.18%
2017 4,041,407 596,336 -1.59% 2.46%
2018 3,988,775 607,950 -1.3% 1.95%
2019 3,949,390 620,001 -0.99% 1.98%
2020 3,914,206 630,419 -0.89% 1.68%
2021 3,878,981 640,064 -0.9% 1.53%
2022 3,855,641 653,103 -0.6% 2.04%
2023 3,859,686 666,430 0.1% 2.04%
2024 3,866,300 677,717 0.17% 1.69%
2025 3,839,202 685,180 -0.7% 1.1%
2026 3,813,444 692,217 -0.67% 1.03%
2027 3,788,509 699,102 -0.65% 0.99%
2028 3,764,509 705,956 -0.63% 0.98%
2029 3,740,864 712,502 -0.63% 0.93%
2030 3,717,091 718,627 -0.64% 0.86%
2031 3,693,060 724,433 -0.65% 0.81%
2032 3,668,891 730,118 -0.65% 0.78%
2033 3,645,252 735,604 -0.64% 0.75%
2034 3,621,822 740,767 -0.64% 0.7%
2035 3,598,817 745,776 -0.64% 0.68%
2036 3,576,022 750,596 -0.63% 0.65%
2037 3,552,470 755,119 -0.66% 0.6%
2038 3,528,382 759,551 -0.68% 0.59%
2039 3,504,319 763,923 -0.68% 0.58%
2040 3,480,182 767,972 -0.69% 0.53%
2041 3,455,709 771,757 -0.7% 0.49%
2042 3,430,926 775,418 -0.72% 0.47%
2043 3,406,019 778,811 -0.73% 0.44%
2044 3,380,680 781,936 -0.74% 0.4%
2045 3,355,131 784,957 -0.76% 0.39%
2046 3,329,736 787,788 -0.76% 0.36%
2047 3,304,173 790,356 -0.77% 0.33%
2048 3,278,352 792,821 -0.78% 0.31%
2049 3,252,533 795,064 -0.79% 0.28%
2050 3,226,623 796,958 -0.8% 0.24%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Croatia decreased by 158,420 people (a 3.68% decline), while Luxembourg gained 104,446 people (a 22.5% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Croatia lost -312,523 (a 7.53% decline), while Luxembourg's population increased by 121,228 (a 21.3% growth).

Croatia was ranked 117th most populous country in 2005 and is 129th in 2025. Luxembourg was ranked 167th in 2005 and ranked 164th 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 Luxembourg will increase by 15.4% to 796,958 people and will still be ranked 164th.

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