The latest officially reported population of Croatia was 3,866,300 in 2024 vs 10,576,502 people in Papua New Guinea in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Croatia's population is 3,839,202 people compared to 10,911,445 in Papua New Guinea.
Population statistics:
- Papua New Guinea's population is 2.84 times bigger than Croatia's.
- Croatia is ranked the 129th most populous country in the world, while Papua New Guinea is the 90th.
- The countries together account for 0.18% of the world: 0.05% for Croatia vs 0.13% for Papua New Guinea.
- For the last 10 years, Croatia has had an average growth rate of -0.82% per year vs +2.23% in Papua New Guinea.
- Since 2005, the population of Croatia has decreased from 4.31M people to 3.84M (10.9% decline), while Papua New Guinea has grown from 6.54M to 10.9M (66.9% growth).
- Papua New Guinea is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 18.6M 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 Papua New Guinea: live population counter
Croatia
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Papua New Guinea
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|
|---|---|---|
| Current population |
3839202
|
10911445
|
| Population rank | 129/197 | 90/197 |
| Percent of world population | 0.05% | 0.13% |
| One net population change |
1.32 hours
|
2.81 minutes
|
| One birth every |
16.4 minutes
|
2.06 minutes
|
| One death every |
10.2 minutes
|
7.76 minutes
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| One migration net change every |
1.69 hours
|
12.4 hours
|
| Annual migration change | -5,186 | -707 |
| Daily growth/decline | +18 | +512 |
| Annual growth/decline | +6,614 | +186,867 |
| Annual growth/decline rate | +0.17% | +1.8% |
| Population growth rate rank | 155/197 | 61/197 |
Croatia and Papua New Guinea: population history and growth rate by year chart
Croatia
Population
Growth rate
Papua New Guinea
Population
Growth rate
| Year | Population | Growth rate | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Croatia
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Papua New Guinea
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Croatia
|
Papua New Guinea
|
|
| 1960 | 4,140,181 | 1,995,110 | - | - |
| 1961 | 4,167,292 | 2,046,127 | 0.65% | 2.56% |
| 1962 | 4,196,712 | 2,093,919 | 0.71% | 2.34% |
| 1963 | 4,225,675 | 2,141,376 | 0.69% | 2.27% |
| 1964 | 4,252,876 | 2,188,325 | 0.64% | 2.19% |
| 1965 | 4,280,923 | 2,235,820 | 0.66% | 2.17% |
| 1966 | 4,310,701 | 2,285,774 | 0.7% | 2.23% |
| 1967 | 4,338,683 | 2,337,532 | 0.65% | 2.26% |
| 1968 | 4,365,628 | 2,390,803 | 0.62% | 2.28% |
| 1969 | 4,391,490 | 2,446,927 | 0.59% | 2.35% |
| 1970 | 4,412,252 | 2,505,628 | 0.47% | 2.4% |
| 1971 | 4,431,275 | 2,566,421 | 0.43% | 2.43% |
| 1972 | 4,450,564 | 2,628,432 | 0.44% | 2.42% |
| 1973 | 4,470,161 | 2,690,629 | 0.44% | 2.37% |
| 1974 | 4,490,660 | 2,752,671 | 0.46% | 2.31% |
| 1975 | 4,512,082 | 2,814,820 | 0.48% | 2.26% |
| 1976 | 4,535,934 | 2,877,327 | 0.53% | 2.22% |
| 1977 | 4,559,571 | 2,940,327 | 0.52% | 2.19% |
| 1978 | 4,581,085 | 3,003,714 | 0.47% | 2.16% |
| 1979 | 4,594,778 | 3,067,341 | 0.3% | 2.12% |
| 1980 | 4,599,782 | 3,131,512 | 0.11% | 2.09% |
| 1981 | 4,611,509 | 3,197,019 | 0.25% | 2.09% |
| 1982 | 4,634,234 | 3,264,291 | 0.49% | 2.1% |
| 1983 | 4,658,254 | 3,333,633 | 0.52% | 2.12% |
| 1984 | 4,680,285 | 3,405,198 | 0.47% | 2.15% |
| 1985 | 4,701,417 | 3,478,936 | 0.45% | 2.17% |
| 1986 | 4,721,446 | 3,554,793 | 0.43% | 2.18% |
| 1987 | 4,739,745 | 3,632,543 | 0.39% | 2.19% |
| 1988 | 4,755,207 | 3,711,880 | 0.33% | 2.18% |
| 1989 | 4,767,260 | 3,796,078 | 0.25% | 2.27% |
| 1990 | 4,777,368 | 3,896,481 | 0.21% | 2.64% |
| 1991 | 4,689,022 | 4,021,837 | -1.85% | 3.22% |
| 1992 | 4,575,818 | 4,166,699 | -2.41% | 3.6% |
| 1993 | 4,600,463 | 4,320,872 | 0.54% | 3.7% |
| 1994 | 4,652,024 | 4,480,208 | 1.12% | 3.69% |
| 1995 | 4,620,030 | 4,644,278 | -0.69% | 3.66% |
| 1996 | 4,557,097 | 4,813,361 | -1.36% | 3.64% |
| 1997 | 4,534,920 | 4,987,883 | -0.49% | 3.63% |
| 1998 | 4,532,135 | 5,166,390 | -0.06% | 3.58% |
| 1999 | 4,512,597 | 5,349,333 | -0.43% | 3.54% |
| 2000 | 4,468,302 | 5,537,064 | -0.98% | 3.51% |
| 2001 | 4,299,642 | 5,728,435 | -3.77% | 3.46% |
| 2002 | 4,302,174 | 5,924,003 | 0.06% | 3.41% |
| 2003 | 4,303,399 | 6,123,997 | 0.03% | 3.38% |
| 2004 | 4,304,600 | 6,328,041 | 0.03% | 3.33% |
| 2005 | 4,310,145 | 6,535,905 | 0.13% | 3.28% |
| 2006 | 4,311,159 | 6,747,720 | 0.02% | 3.24% |
| 2007 | 4,310,217 | 6,963,345 | -0.02% | 3.2% |
| 2008 | 4,309,705 | 7,183,002 | -0.01% | 3.15% |
| 2009 | 4,305,181 | 7,406,438 | -0.1% | 3.11% |
| 2010 | 4,295,427 | 7,633,523 | -0.23% | 3.07% |
| 2011 | 4,280,622 | 7,859,346 | -0.34% | 2.96% |
| 2012 | 4,260,368 | 8,081,390 | -0.47% | 2.83% |
| 2013 | 4,233,922 | 8,302,698 | -0.62% | 2.74% |
| 2014 | 4,201,598 | 8,523,441 | -0.76% | 2.66% |
| 2015 | 4,151,725 | 8,743,246 | -1.19% | 2.58% |
| 2016 | 4,106,867 | 8,961,718 | -1.08% | 2.5% |
| 2017 | 4,041,407 | 9,178,714 | -1.59% | 2.42% |
| 2018 | 3,988,775 | 9,394,513 | -1.3% | 2.35% |
| 2019 | 3,949,390 | 9,609,010 | -0.99% | 2.28% |
| 2020 | 3,914,206 | 9,815,746 | -0.89% | 2.15% |
| 2021 | 3,878,981 | 10,012,896 | -0.9% | 2.01% |
| 2022 | 3,855,641 | 10,203,169 | -0.6% | 1.9% |
| 2023 | 3,859,686 | 10,389,635 | 0.1% | 1.83% |
| 2024 | 3,866,300 | 10,576,502 | 0.17% | 1.8% |
| 2025 | 3,839,202 | 10,762,813 | -0.7% | 1.76% |
| 2026 | 3,813,444 | 10,947,845 | -0.67% | 1.72% |
| 2027 | 3,788,509 | 11,131,268 | -0.65% | 1.68% |
| 2028 | 3,764,509 | 11,312,895 | -0.63% | 1.63% |
| 2029 | 3,740,864 | 11,492,799 | -0.63% | 1.59% |
| 2030 | 3,717,091 | 11,671,420 | -0.64% | 1.55% |
| 2031 | 3,693,060 | 11,848,221 | -0.65% | 1.51% |
| 2032 | 3,668,891 | 12,023,121 | -0.65% | 1.48% |
| 2033 | 3,645,252 | 12,196,639 | -0.64% | 1.44% |
| 2034 | 3,621,822 | 12,369,248 | -0.64% | 1.42% |
| 2035 | 3,598,817 | 12,540,596 | -0.64% | 1.39% |
| 2036 | 3,576,022 | 12,710,682 | -0.63% | 1.36% |
| 2037 | 3,552,470 | 12,879,737 | -0.66% | 1.33% |
| 2038 | 3,528,382 | 13,047,122 | -0.68% | 1.3% |
| 2039 | 3,504,319 | 13,212,668 | -0.68% | 1.27% |
| 2040 | 3,480,182 | 13,376,156 | -0.69% | 1.24% |
| 2041 | 3,455,709 | 13,537,361 | -0.7% | 1.21% |
| 2042 | 3,430,926 | 13,696,139 | -0.72% | 1.17% |
| 2043 | 3,406,019 | 13,853,410 | -0.73% | 1.15% |
| 2044 | 3,380,680 | 14,009,926 | -0.74% | 1.13% |
| 2045 | 3,355,131 | 14,165,578 | -0.76% | 1.11% |
| 2046 | 3,329,736 | 14,318,889 | -0.76% | 1.08% |
| 2047 | 3,304,173 | 14,469,210 | -0.77% | 1.05% |
| 2048 | 3,278,352 | 14,617,364 | -0.78% | 1.02% |
| 2049 | 3,252,533 | 14,763,600 | -0.79% | 1% |
| 2050 | 3,226,623 | 14,906,584 | -0.8% | 0.97% |
From 2005 to 2015, the population of Croatia decreased by 158,420 people (a 3.68% decline), while Papua New Guinea gained 2,207,341 people (a 33.8% growth).
For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Croatia lost -312,523 (a 7.53% decline), while Papua New Guinea's population increased by 2,168,199 (a 24.8% growth).
Croatia was ranked 117th most populous country in 2005 and is 129th in 2025. Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th in 2005 and ranked 90th 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 Papua New Guinea will increase by 36.6% to 14,906,584 people and rank change from 90th to 85th.
Biggest cities by population
|
Croatia
|
|
|---|---|
| City | Population |
| Zagreb | 767K |
| Split | 161K |
| Rijeka | 108K |
| Osijek | 96.3K |
| Zadar | 70.8K |
| Velika Gorica | 61.1K |
| Pula | 52.2K |
| Slavonski Brod | 49.9K |
| Karlovac | 49.4K |
| Sibenik | 42.6K |
|
Papua New Guinea
|
|
|---|---|
| City | Population |
| Port Moresby | 317K |
| Lae | 101K |
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Population differences between Croatia and Papua New Guinea
|
Croatia
|
Papua New Guinea
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Life expectancy | 78.9 years | 66.4 years |
| Average age | 44.6 years | 26.7 years |
| Median age | 46 years | 23.6 years |
| Male:Female ratio | 48.2:51.8 | 51.4:48.6 |
| Fertility rate | 1.46 births per woman | 3.1 births per woman |
| Population density | 178.9 ppl/mi² | 60.5 ppl/mi² |
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