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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Croatia	Romania	Croatia	Romania
1960	4,140,181	18,406,905	-	-
1961	4,167,292	18,555,250	0.65%	0.81%
1962	4,196,712	18,676,550	0.71%	0.65%
1963	4,225,675	18,797,850	0.69%	0.65%
1964	4,252,876	18,919,126	0.64%	0.65%
1965	4,280,923	19,031,576	0.66%	0.59%
1966	4,310,701	19,215,450	0.7%	0.97%
1967	4,338,683	19,534,242	0.65%	1.66%
1968	4,365,628	19,799,831	0.62%	1.36%
1969	4,391,490	20,009,141	0.59%	1.06%
1970	4,412,252	20,250,398	0.47%	1.21%
1971	4,431,275	20,461,567	0.43%	1.04%
1972	4,450,564	20,657,957	0.44%	0.96%
1973	4,470,161	20,835,681	0.44%	0.86%
1974	4,490,660	21,029,429	0.46%	0.93%
1975	4,512,082	21,293,583	0.48%	1.26%
1976	4,535,934	21,551,634	0.53%	1.21%
1977	4,559,571	21,756,096	0.52%	0.95%
1978	4,581,085	21,951,464	0.47%	0.9%
1979	4,594,778	22,090,488	0.3%	0.63%
1980	4,599,782	22,207,282	0.11%	0.53%
1981	4,611,509	22,353,070	0.25%	0.66%
1982	4,634,234	22,475,741	0.49%	0.55%
1983	4,658,254	22,560,478	0.52%	0.38%
1984	4,680,285	22,640,547	0.47%	0.35%
1985	4,701,417	22,732,999	0.45%	0.41%
1986	4,721,446	22,836,841	0.43%	0.46%
1987	4,739,745	22,949,430	0.39%	0.49%
1988	4,755,207	23,057,662	0.33%	0.47%
1989	4,767,260	23,161,458	0.25%	0.45%
1990	4,777,368	23,201,835	0.21%	0.17%
1991	4,689,022	23,001,155	-1.85%	-0.86%
1992	4,575,818	22,794,284	-2.41%	-0.9%
1993	4,600,463	22,763,280	0.54%	-0.14%
1994	4,652,024	22,730,211	1.12%	-0.15%
1995	4,620,030	22,684,270	-0.69%	-0.2%
1996	4,557,097	22,619,004	-1.36%	-0.29%
1997	4,534,920	22,553,978	-0.49%	-0.29%
1998	4,532,135	22,507,344	-0.06%	-0.21%
1999	4,512,597	22,472,040	-0.43%	-0.16%
2000	4,468,302	22,442,971	-0.98%	-0.13%
2001	4,299,642	22,131,970	-3.77%	-1.39%
2002	4,302,174	21,730,496	0.06%	-1.81%
2003	4,303,399	21,574,326	0.03%	-0.72%
2004	4,304,600	21,451,748	0.03%	-0.57%
2005	4,310,145	21,319,685	0.13%	-0.62%
2006	4,311,159	21,193,760	0.02%	-0.59%
2007	4,310,217	20,882,982	-0.02%	-1.47%
2008	4,309,705	20,537,875	-0.01%	-1.65%
2009	4,305,181	20,367,487	-0.1%	-0.83%
2010	4,295,427	20,246,871	-0.23%	-0.59%
2011	4,280,622	20,147,528	-0.34%	-0.49%
2012	4,260,368	20,058,035	-0.47%	-0.44%
2013	4,233,922	19,983,693	-0.62%	-0.37%
2014	4,201,598	19,908,979	-0.76%	-0.37%
2015	4,151,725	19,815,616	-1.19%	-0.47%
2016	4,106,867	19,702,267	-1.08%	-0.57%
2017	4,041,407	19,588,715	-1.59%	-0.58%
2018	3,988,775	19,473,970	-1.3%	-0.59%
2019	3,949,390	19,371,648	-0.99%	-0.53%
2020	3,914,206	19,265,250	-0.89%	-0.55%
2021	3,878,981	19,122,059	-0.9%	-0.74%
2022	3,855,641	19,048,502	-0.6%	-0.38%
2023	3,859,686	19,059,479	0.1%	0.06%
2024	3,866,300	19,069,340	0.17%	0.05%
2025	3,839,202	18,962,595	-0.7%	-0.56%
2026	3,813,444	18,854,232	-0.67%	-0.57%
2027	3,788,509	18,744,883	-0.65%	-0.58%
2028	3,764,509	18,634,894	-0.63%	-0.59%
2029	3,740,864	18,523,736	-0.63%	-0.6%
2030	3,717,091	18,411,878	-0.64%	-0.6%
2031	3,693,060	18,299,820	-0.65%	-0.61%
2032	3,668,891	18,187,406	-0.65%	-0.61%
2033	3,645,252	18,074,282	-0.64%	-0.62%
2034	3,621,822	17,960,330	-0.64%	-0.63%
2035	3,598,817	17,845,182	-0.64%	-0.64%
2036	3,576,022	17,728,480	-0.63%	-0.65%
2037	3,552,470	17,611,384	-0.66%	-0.66%
2038	3,528,382	17,493,684	-0.68%	-0.67%
2039	3,504,319	17,375,991	-0.68%	-0.67%
2040	3,480,182	17,258,810	-0.69%	-0.67%
2041	3,455,709	17,140,535	-0.7%	-0.69%
2042	3,430,926	17,022,168	-0.72%	-0.69%
2043	3,406,019	16,904,427	-0.73%	-0.69%
2044	3,380,680	16,786,029	-0.74%	-0.7%
2045	3,355,131	16,667,734	-0.76%	-0.7%
2046	3,329,736	16,550,066	-0.76%	-0.71%
2047	3,304,173	16,431,566	-0.77%	-0.72%
2048	3,278,352	16,312,099	-0.78%	-0.73%
2049	3,252,533	16,192,424	-0.79%	-0.73%
2050	3,226,623	16,072,989	-0.8%	-0.74%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Croatia decreased by 158,420 people (a 3.68% decline), while Romania lost 1,504,069 people (a 7.05% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Croatia lost -312,523 (a 7.53% decline), while Romania's population decreased by -853,021 (a 4.3% decline).

Croatia was ranked 117th most populous country in 2005 and is 129th in 2025. Romania was ranked 50th in 2005 and ranked 69th 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 Romania will decrease by 15.2% to 16,072,989 people and rank change from 69th to 81st.