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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Croatia	Poland	Croatia	Poland
1960	4,140,181	29,637,450	-	-
1961	4,167,292	29,964,000	0.65%	1.1%
1962	4,196,712	30,308,500	0.71%	1.15%
1963	4,225,675	30,712,000	0.69%	1.33%
1964	4,252,876	31,139,450	0.64%	1.39%
1965	4,280,923	31,444,950	0.66%	0.98%
1966	4,310,701	31,681,000	0.7%	0.75%
1967	4,338,683	31,987,155	0.65%	0.97%
1968	4,365,628	32,294,655	0.62%	0.96%
1969	4,391,490	32,548,300	0.59%	0.79%
1970	4,412,252	32,664,300	0.47%	0.36%
1971	4,431,275	32,783,500	0.43%	0.36%
1972	4,450,564	33,055,650	0.44%	0.83%
1973	4,470,161	33,357,200	0.44%	0.91%
1974	4,490,660	33,678,899	0.46%	0.96%
1975	4,512,082	34,015,199	0.48%	1%
1976	4,535,934	34,356,300	0.53%	1%
1977	4,559,571	34,689,050	0.52%	0.97%
1978	4,581,085	34,965,600	0.47%	0.8%
1979	4,594,778	35,247,217	0.3%	0.81%
1980	4,599,782	35,574,150	0.11%	0.93%
1981	4,611,509	35,898,587	0.25%	0.91%
1982	4,634,234	36,230,481	0.49%	0.92%
1983	4,658,254	36,571,808	0.52%	0.94%
1984	4,680,285	36,904,134	0.47%	0.91%
1985	4,701,417	37,201,885	0.45%	0.81%
1986	4,721,446	37,456,119	0.43%	0.68%
1987	4,739,745	37,668,045	0.39%	0.57%
1988	4,755,207	37,824,487	0.33%	0.42%
1989	4,767,260	37,961,529	0.25%	0.36%
1990	4,777,368	38,110,782	0.21%	0.39%
1991	4,689,022	38,246,193	-1.85%	0.36%
1992	4,575,818	38,363,667	-2.41%	0.31%
1993	4,600,463	38,461,408	0.54%	0.25%
1994	4,652,024	38,542,652	1.12%	0.21%
1995	4,620,030	38,594,998	-0.69%	0.14%
1996	4,557,097	38,624,370	-1.36%	0.08%
1997	4,534,920	38,649,660	-0.49%	0.07%
1998	4,532,135	38,663,481	-0.06%	0.04%
1999	4,512,597	38,660,271	-0.43%	-0.008%
2000	4,468,302	38,258,629	-0.98%	-1.04%
2001	4,299,642	38,248,076	-3.77%	-0.03%
2002	4,302,174	38,230,364	0.06%	-0.05%
2003	4,303,399	38,204,570	0.03%	-0.07%
2004	4,304,600	38,182,222	0.03%	-0.06%
2005	4,310,145	38,165,445	0.13%	-0.04%
2006	4,311,159	38,141,267	0.02%	-0.06%
2007	4,310,217	38,120,560	-0.02%	-0.05%
2008	4,309,705	38,125,759	-0.01%	0.01%
2009	4,305,181	38,151,603	-0.1%	0.07%
2010	4,295,427	38,042,794	-0.23%	-0.29%
2011	4,280,622	38,063,255	-0.34%	0.05%
2012	4,260,368	38,063,164	-0.47%	-0%
2013	4,233,922	38,040,196	-0.62%	-0.06%
2014	4,201,598	38,011,735	-0.76%	-0.07%
2015	4,151,725	37,986,412	-1.19%	-0.07%
2016	4,106,867	37,970,087	-1.08%	-0.04%
2017	4,041,407	37,974,826	-1.59%	0.01%
2018	3,988,775	37,974,750	-1.3%	-0%
2019	3,949,390	37,965,475	-0.99%	-0.02%
2020	3,914,206	37,515,748	-0.89%	-1.18%
2021	3,878,981	36,981,559	-0.9%	-1.42%
2022	3,855,641	36,821,749	-0.6%	-0.43%
2023	3,859,686	36,687,353	0.1%	-0.36%
2024	3,866,300	36,554,707	0.17%	-0.36%
2025	3,839,202	36,176,920	-0.7%	-1.03%
2026	3,813,444	35,894,534	-0.67%	-0.78%
2027	3,788,509	35,753,988	-0.65%	-0.39%
2028	3,764,509	35,605,295	-0.63%	-0.42%
2029	3,740,864	35,447,860	-0.63%	-0.44%
2030	3,717,091	35,283,068	-0.64%	-0.46%
2031	3,693,060	35,111,838	-0.65%	-0.49%
2032	3,668,891	34,934,626	-0.65%	-0.5%
2033	3,645,252	34,753,118	-0.64%	-0.52%
2034	3,621,822	34,567,292	-0.64%	-0.53%
2035	3,598,817	34,377,478	-0.64%	-0.55%
2036	3,576,022	34,183,187	-0.63%	-0.57%
2037	3,552,470	33,984,777	-0.66%	-0.58%
2038	3,528,382	33,782,992	-0.68%	-0.59%
2039	3,504,319	33,577,269	-0.68%	-0.61%
2040	3,480,182	33,368,049	-0.69%	-0.62%
2041	3,455,709	33,156,329	-0.7%	-0.63%
2042	3,430,926	32,941,367	-0.72%	-0.65%
2043	3,406,019	32,722,775	-0.73%	-0.66%
2044	3,380,680	32,501,991	-0.74%	-0.67%
2045	3,355,131	32,278,695	-0.76%	-0.69%
2046	3,329,736	32,052,771	-0.76%	-0.7%
2047	3,304,173	31,824,481	-0.77%	-0.71%
2048	3,278,352	31,593,911	-0.78%	-0.72%
2049	3,252,533	31,360,713	-0.79%	-0.74%
2050	3,226,623	31,124,396	-0.8%	-0.75%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Croatia decreased by 158,420 people (a 3.68% decline), while Poland lost 179,033 people (a 0.47% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Croatia lost -312,523 (a 7.53% decline), while Poland's population decreased by -1,809,492 (a 4.76% decline).

Croatia was ranked 117th most populous country in 2005 and is 129th in 2025. Poland was ranked 32nd in 2005 and ranked 46th 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 Poland will decrease by 14% to 31,124,396 people and rank change from 46th to 61st.