Population in Croatia compared to the Netherlands: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Croatia and the Netherlands: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Croatia	Netherlands	Croatia	Netherlands
1960	4,140,181	11,486,631	-	-
1961	4,167,292	11,638,712	0.65%	1.32%
1962	4,196,712	11,805,689	0.71%	1.43%
1963	4,225,675	11,965,966	0.69%	1.36%
1964	4,252,876	12,127,120	0.64%	1.35%
1965	4,280,923	12,294,732	0.66%	1.38%
1966	4,310,701	12,456,251	0.7%	1.31%
1967	4,338,683	12,598,201	0.65%	1.14%
1968	4,365,628	12,729,721	0.62%	1.04%
1969	4,391,490	12,877,984	0.59%	1.16%
1970	4,412,252	13,038,526	0.47%	1.25%
1971	4,431,275	13,194,497	0.43%	1.2%
1972	4,450,564	13,328,593	0.44%	1.02%
1973	4,470,161	13,439,322	0.44%	0.83%
1974	4,490,660	13,545,056	0.46%	0.79%
1975	4,512,082	13,666,335	0.48%	0.9%
1976	4,535,934	13,774,037	0.53%	0.79%
1977	4,559,571	13,856,185	0.52%	0.6%
1978	4,581,085	13,941,700	0.47%	0.62%
1979	4,594,778	14,038,270	0.3%	0.69%
1980	4,599,782	14,149,800	0.11%	0.79%
1981	4,611,509	14,247,208	0.25%	0.69%
1982	4,634,234	14,312,690	0.49%	0.46%
1983	4,658,254	14,367,070	0.52%	0.38%
1984	4,680,285	14,424,211	0.47%	0.4%
1985	4,701,417	14,491,632	0.45%	0.47%
1986	4,721,446	14,572,278	0.43%	0.56%
1987	4,739,745	14,665,037	0.39%	0.64%
1988	4,755,207	14,760,094	0.33%	0.65%
1989	4,767,260	14,848,907	0.25%	0.6%
1990	4,777,368	14,951,510	0.21%	0.69%
1991	4,689,022	15,069,798	-1.85%	0.79%
1992	4,575,818	15,184,166	-2.41%	0.76%
1993	4,600,463	15,290,368	0.54%	0.7%
1994	4,652,024	15,382,838	1.12%	0.6%
1995	4,620,030	15,459,006	-0.69%	0.5%
1996	4,557,097	15,530,498	-1.36%	0.46%
1997	4,534,920	15,610,650	-0.49%	0.52%
1998	4,532,135	15,707,209	-0.06%	0.62%
1999	4,512,597	15,812,088	-0.43%	0.67%
2000	4,468,302	15,925,513	-0.98%	0.72%
2001	4,299,642	16,046,180	-3.77%	0.76%
2002	4,302,174	16,148,929	0.06%	0.64%
2003	4,303,399	16,225,302	0.03%	0.47%
2004	4,304,600	16,281,779	0.03%	0.35%
2005	4,310,145	16,319,868	0.13%	0.23%
2006	4,311,159	16,346,101	0.02%	0.16%
2007	4,310,217	16,381,696	-0.02%	0.22%
2008	4,309,705	16,445,593	-0.01%	0.39%
2009	4,305,181	16,530,388	-0.1%	0.52%
2010	4,295,427	16,615,394	-0.23%	0.51%
2011	4,280,622	16,693,074	-0.34%	0.47%
2012	4,260,368	16,754,962	-0.47%	0.37%
2013	4,233,922	16,804,432	-0.62%	0.3%
2014	4,201,598	16,865,008	-0.76%	0.36%
2015	4,151,725	16,939,923	-1.19%	0.44%
2016	4,106,867	17,030,314	-1.08%	0.53%
2017	4,041,407	17,131,296	-1.59%	0.59%
2018	3,988,775	17,231,624	-1.3%	0.59%
2019	3,949,390	17,344,874	-0.99%	0.66%
2020	3,914,206	17,441,500	-0.89%	0.56%
2021	3,878,981	17,533,044	-0.9%	0.52%
2022	3,855,641	17,700,982	-0.6%	0.96%
2023	3,859,686	17,877,117	0.1%	1%
2024	3,866,300	17,994,237	0.17%	0.66%
2025	3,839,202	18,110,800	-0.7%	0.65%
2026	3,813,444	18,211,436	-0.67%	0.56%
2027	3,788,509	18,299,531	-0.65%	0.48%
2028	3,764,509	18,379,573	-0.63%	0.44%
2029	3,740,864	18,452,044	-0.63%	0.39%
2030	3,717,091	18,515,913	-0.64%	0.35%
2031	3,693,060	18,571,934	-0.65%	0.3%
2032	3,668,891	18,621,087	-0.65%	0.26%
2033	3,645,252	18,664,975	-0.64%	0.24%
2034	3,621,822	18,702,456	-0.64%	0.2%
2035	3,598,817	18,733,223	-0.64%	0.16%
2036	3,576,022	18,760,054	-0.63%	0.14%
2037	3,552,470	18,781,793	-0.66%	0.12%
2038	3,528,382	18,798,283	-0.68%	0.09%
2039	3,504,319	18,810,276	-0.68%	0.06%
2040	3,480,182	18,817,745	-0.69%	0.04%
2041	3,455,709	18,820,870	-0.7%	0.02%
2042	3,430,926	18,819,607	-0.72%	-0.007%
2043	3,406,019	18,815,261	-0.73%	-0.02%
2044	3,380,680	18,807,564	-0.74%	-0.04%
2045	3,355,131	18,797,005	-0.76%	-0.06%
2046	3,329,736	18,785,724	-0.76%	-0.06%
2047	3,304,173	18,771,651	-0.77%	-0.07%
2048	3,278,352	18,754,325	-0.78%	-0.09%
2049	3,252,533	18,735,299	-0.79%	-0.1%
2050	3,226,623	18,714,579	-0.8%	-0.11%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Croatia decreased by 158,420 people (a 3.68% decline), while the Netherlands gained 620,055 people (a 3.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Croatia lost -312,523 (a 7.53% decline), while the Netherlands' population increased by 1,251,715 (a 7.39% growth).

Croatia was ranked 117th most populous country in 2005 and is 129th in 2025. The Netherlands was ranked 61st in 2005 and ranked 72nd 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 the Netherlands will increase by 2.87% to 18,714,579 people and rank change from 72nd to 77th.