Population in Croatia compared to North Korea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Croatia and North Korea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Croatia	North Korea	Croatia	North Korea
1960	4,140,181	11,722,953	-	-
1961	4,167,292	11,990,713	0.65%	2.28%
1962	4,196,712	12,262,882	0.71%	2.27%
1963	4,225,675	12,567,057	0.69%	2.48%
1964	4,252,876	12,889,770	0.64%	2.57%
1965	4,280,923	13,219,369	0.66%	2.56%
1966	4,310,701	13,569,094	0.7%	2.65%
1967	4,338,683	13,958,350	0.65%	2.87%
1968	4,365,628	14,365,596	0.62%	2.92%
1969	4,391,490	14,767,615	0.59%	2.8%
1970	4,412,252	15,172,775	0.47%	2.74%
1971	4,431,275	15,572,457	0.43%	2.63%
1972	4,450,564	15,975,069	0.44%	2.59%
1973	4,470,161	16,350,367	0.44%	2.35%
1974	4,490,660	16,673,121	0.46%	1.97%
1975	4,512,082	16,971,055	0.48%	1.79%
1976	4,535,934	17,243,450	0.53%	1.61%
1977	4,559,571	17,492,798	0.52%	1.45%
1978	4,581,085	17,735,995	0.47%	1.39%
1979	4,594,778	17,983,470	0.3%	1.4%
1980	4,599,782	18,236,786	0.11%	1.41%
1981	4,611,509	18,501,295	0.25%	1.45%
1982	4,634,234	18,776,357	0.49%	1.49%
1983	4,658,254	19,054,034	0.52%	1.48%
1984	4,680,285	19,335,043	0.47%	1.47%
1985	4,701,417	19,620,388	0.45%	1.48%
1986	4,721,446	19,910,855	0.43%	1.48%
1987	4,739,745	20,205,483	0.39%	1.48%
1988	4,755,207	20,503,161	0.33%	1.47%
1989	4,767,260	20,804,367	0.25%	1.47%
1990	4,777,368	21,112,137	0.21%	1.48%
1991	4,689,022	21,428,638	-1.85%	1.5%
1992	4,575,818	21,750,911	-2.41%	1.5%
1993	4,600,463	22,073,352	0.54%	1.48%
1994	4,652,024	22,393,975	1.12%	1.45%
1995	4,620,030	22,669,304	-0.69%	1.23%
1996	4,557,097	22,895,746	-1.36%	1%
1997	4,534,920	23,110,830	-0.49%	0.94%
1998	4,532,135	23,311,564	-0.06%	0.87%
1999	4,512,597	23,497,599	-0.43%	0.8%
2000	4,468,302	23,665,910	-0.98%	0.72%
2001	4,299,642	23,815,358	-3.77%	0.63%
2002	4,302,174	23,943,973	0.06%	0.54%
2003	4,303,399	24,090,380	0.03%	0.61%
2004	4,304,600	24,254,943	0.03%	0.68%
2005	4,310,145	24,396,433	0.13%	0.58%
2006	4,311,159	24,524,507	0.02%	0.52%
2007	4,310,217	24,646,383	-0.02%	0.5%
2008	4,309,705	24,764,618	-0.01%	0.48%
2009	4,305,181	24,878,332	-0.1%	0.46%
2010	4,295,427	24,987,258	-0.23%	0.44%
2011	4,280,622	25,097,874	-0.34%	0.44%
2012	4,260,368	25,211,728	-0.47%	0.45%
2013	4,233,922	25,329,451	-0.62%	0.47%
2014	4,201,598	25,451,262	-0.76%	0.48%
2015	4,151,725	25,575,350	-1.19%	0.49%
2016	4,106,867	25,698,326	-1.08%	0.48%
2017	4,041,407	25,817,709	-1.59%	0.46%
2018	3,988,775	25,931,147	-1.3%	0.44%
2019	3,949,390	26,037,632	-0.99%	0.41%
2020	3,914,206	26,136,312	-0.89%	0.38%
2021	3,878,981	26,232,534	-0.9%	0.37%
2022	3,855,641	26,328,845	-0.6%	0.37%
2023	3,859,686	26,418,204	0.1%	0.34%
2024	3,866,300	26,498,823	0.17%	0.31%
2025	3,839,202	26,571,033	-0.7%	0.27%
2026	3,813,444	26,633,682	-0.67%	0.24%
2027	3,788,509	26,686,492	-0.65%	0.2%
2028	3,764,509	26,729,261	-0.63%	0.16%
2029	3,740,864	26,762,008	-0.63%	0.12%
2030	3,717,091	26,784,894	-0.64%	0.09%
2031	3,693,060	26,797,946	-0.65%	0.05%
2032	3,668,891	26,801,071	-0.65%	0.01%
2033	3,645,252	26,795,061	-0.64%	-0.02%
2034	3,621,822	26,780,481	-0.64%	-0.05%
2035	3,598,817	26,757,705	-0.64%	-0.09%
2036	3,576,022	26,727,309	-0.63%	-0.11%
2037	3,552,470	26,689,907	-0.66%	-0.14%
2038	3,528,382	26,646,323	-0.68%	-0.16%
2039	3,504,319	26,596,967	-0.68%	-0.19%
2040	3,480,182	26,542,417	-0.69%	-0.21%
2041	3,455,709	26,483,475	-0.7%	-0.22%
2042	3,430,926	26,420,812	-0.72%	-0.24%
2043	3,406,019	26,354,324	-0.73%	-0.25%
2044	3,380,680	26,284,000	-0.74%	-0.27%
2045	3,355,131	26,210,196	-0.76%	-0.28%
2046	3,329,736	26,132,922	-0.76%	-0.29%
2047	3,304,173	26,052,086	-0.77%	-0.31%
2048	3,278,352	25,967,581	-0.78%	-0.32%
2049	3,252,533	25,879,244	-0.79%	-0.34%
2050	3,226,623	25,787,120	-0.8%	-0.36%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Croatia decreased by 158,420 people (a 3.68% decline), while North Korea gained 1,178,917 people (a 4.83% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Croatia lost -312,523 (a 7.53% decline), while North Korea's population increased by 1,046,007 (a 4.09% growth).

Croatia was ranked 117th most populous country in 2005 and is 129th in 2025. North Korea was ranked 46th in 2005 and ranked 56th 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 North Korea will decrease by 3.13% to 25,787,120 people and rank change from 56th to 66th.