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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Croatia was 3,866,300 in 2024 vs 130,861,007 people in Mexico in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Croatia's population is 3,839,202 people compared to 132,790,957 in Mexico.

Population statistics:

  • Mexico's population is 34.6 times bigger than Croatia's.
  • Croatia is ranked the 129th most populous country in the world, while Mexico is the 11th.
  • The countries together account for 1.65% of the world: 0.05% for Croatia vs 1.61% for Mexico.
  • For the last 10 years, Croatia has had an average growth rate of -0.82% per year vs +0.92% in Mexico.
  • Since 2005, the population of Croatia has decreased from 4.31M people to 3.84M (10.9% decline), while Mexico has grown from 106M to 133M (25.5% growth).
  • Mexico is projected to reach its peak in 2058 at 150M 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 Mexico: live population counter

Croatia Mexico
Current population
3839202
132790957
Population rank 129/197 11/197
Percent of world population 0.05% 1.61%
One net population change
1.32 hours
28.1 seconds
One birth every
16.4 minutes
15.5 seconds
One death every
10.2 minutes
39.5 seconds
One migration net change every
1.69 hours
5.03 minutes
Annual migration change -5,186 -104,581
Daily growth/decline +18 +3,072
Annual growth/decline +6,614 +1,121,248
Annual growth/decline rate +0.17% +0.86%
Population growth rate rank 155/197 113/197

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

Croatia
Population

Growth rate
Mexico
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Croatia Mexico Croatia Mexico
1960 4,140,181 36,724,615 - -
1961 4,167,292 37,890,118 0.65% 3.17%
1962 4,196,712 39,129,200 0.71% 3.27%
1963 4,225,675 40,424,065 0.69% 3.31%
1964 4,252,876 41,772,049 0.64% 3.33%
1965 4,280,923 43,174,477 0.66% 3.36%
1966 4,310,701 44,629,106 0.7% 3.37%
1967 4,338,683 46,129,608 0.65% 3.36%
1968 4,365,628 47,668,303 0.62% 3.34%
1969 4,391,490 49,233,194 0.59% 3.28%
1970 4,412,252 50,814,953 0.47% 3.21%
1971 4,431,275 52,412,558 0.43% 3.14%
1972 4,450,564 54,030,168 0.44% 3.09%
1973 4,470,161 55,667,284 0.44% 3.03%
1974 4,490,660 57,320,149 0.46% 2.97%
1975 4,512,082 58,982,400 0.48% 2.9%
1976 4,535,934 60,645,512 0.53% 2.82%
1977 4,559,571 62,308,493 0.52% 2.74%
1978 4,581,085 63,979,046 0.47% 2.68%
1979 4,594,778 65,648,865 0.3% 2.61%
1980 4,599,782 67,300,334 0.11% 2.52%
1981 4,611,509 68,892,108 0.25% 2.37%
1982 4,634,234 70,433,260 0.49% 2.24%
1983 4,658,254 71,971,240 0.52% 2.18%
1984 4,680,285 73,506,846 0.47% 2.13%
1985 4,701,417 75,043,414 0.45% 2.09%
1986 4,721,446 76,585,637 0.43% 2.06%
1987 4,739,745 78,136,651 0.39% 2.03%
1988 4,755,207 79,695,531 0.33% 2%
1989 4,767,260 81,247,182 0.25% 1.95%
1990 4,777,368 82,820,170 0.21% 1.94%
1991 4,689,022 84,430,572 -1.85% 1.94%
1992 4,575,818 86,044,809 -2.41% 1.91%
1993 4,600,463 87,653,807 0.54% 1.87%
1994 4,652,024 89,259,205 1.12% 1.83%
1995 4,620,030 90,862,455 -0.69% 1.8%
1996 4,557,097 92,452,702 -1.36% 1.75%
1997 4,534,920 94,021,207 -0.49% 1.7%
1998 4,532,135 95,575,245 -0.06% 1.65%
1999 4,512,597 97,115,707 -0.43% 1.61%
2000 4,468,302 98,625,552 -0.98% 1.55%
2001 4,299,642 100,099,099 -3.77% 1.49%
2002 4,302,174 101,548,624 0.06% 1.45%
2003 4,303,399 102,978,515 0.03% 1.41%
2004 4,304,600 104,394,131 0.03% 1.37%
2005 4,310,145 105,811,504 0.13% 1.36%
2006 4,311,159 107,253,666 0.02% 1.36%
2007 4,310,217 108,774,360 -0.02% 1.42%
2008 4,309,705 110,374,288 -0.01% 1.47%
2009 4,305,181 111,999,721 -0.1% 1.47%
2010 4,295,427 113,623,895 -0.23% 1.45%
2011 4,280,622 115,243,504 -0.34% 1.43%
2012 4,260,368 116,818,208 -0.47% 1.37%
2013 4,233,922 118,343,573 -0.62% 1.31%
2014 4,201,598 119,784,261 -0.76% 1.22%
2015 4,151,725 121,072,306 -1.19% 1.08%
2016 4,106,867 122,251,351 -1.08% 0.97%
2017 4,041,407 123,400,057 -1.59% 0.94%
2018 3,988,775 124,573,711 -1.3% 0.95%
2019 3,949,390 125,762,982 -0.99% 0.95%
2020 3,914,206 126,799,054 -0.89% 0.82%
2021 3,878,981 127,648,148 -0.9% 0.67%
2022 3,855,641 128,613,117 -0.6% 0.76%
2023 3,859,686 129,739,759 0.1% 0.88%
2024 3,866,300 130,861,007 0.17% 0.86%
2025 3,839,202 131,946,905 -0.7% 0.83%
2026 3,813,444 132,997,664 -0.67% 0.8%
2027 3,788,509 134,017,711 -0.65% 0.77%
2028 3,764,509 135,008,697 -0.63% 0.74%
2029 3,740,864 135,970,893 -0.63% 0.71%
2030 3,717,091 136,904,747 -0.64% 0.69%
2031 3,693,060 137,811,068 -0.65% 0.66%
2032 3,668,891 138,690,189 -0.65% 0.64%
2033 3,645,252 139,542,087 -0.64% 0.61%
2034 3,621,822 140,362,026 -0.64% 0.59%
2035 3,598,817 141,150,818 -0.64% 0.56%
2036 3,576,022 141,909,168 -0.63% 0.54%
2037 3,552,470 142,637,546 -0.66% 0.51%
2038 3,528,382 143,336,222 -0.68% 0.49%
2039 3,504,319 143,998,296 -0.68% 0.46%
2040 3,480,182 144,624,328 -0.69% 0.43%
2041 3,455,709 145,217,780 -0.7% 0.41%
2042 3,430,926 145,777,459 -0.72% 0.39%
2043 3,406,019 146,300,011 -0.73% 0.36%
2044 3,380,680 146,787,722 -0.74% 0.33%
2045 3,355,131 147,240,096 -0.76% 0.31%
2046 3,329,736 147,654,160 -0.76% 0.28%
2047 3,304,173 148,030,153 -0.77% 0.25%
2048 3,278,352 148,372,233 -0.78% 0.23%
2049 3,252,533 148,677,894 -0.79% 0.21%
2050 3,226,623 148,946,272 -0.8% 0.18%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Croatia decreased by 158,420 people (a 3.68% decline), while Mexico gained 15,260,802 people (a 14.4% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Croatia lost -312,523 (a 7.53% decline), while Mexico's population increased by 11,718,651 (a 9.68% growth).

Croatia was ranked 117th most populous country in 2005 and is 129th in 2025. Mexico was ranked 11th in 2005 and still ranked 11th 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 Mexico will increase by 12.2% to 148,946,272 people and rank change from 11th to 12th.

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