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	19,061,062	0.1%	0.07%
2024	3,866,200	19,051,804	0.17%	-0.05%
2025	3,839,102	18,945,157	-0.7%	-0.56%
2026	3,813,345	18,836,893	-0.67%	-0.57%
2027	3,788,411	18,727,645	-0.65%	-0.58%
2028	3,764,412	18,617,757	-0.63%	-0.59%
2029	3,740,768	18,506,702	-0.63%	-0.6%
2030	3,716,995	18,394,947	-0.64%	-0.6%
2031	3,692,964	18,282,991	-0.65%	-0.61%
2032	3,668,796	18,170,681	-0.65%	-0.61%
2033	3,645,158	18,057,661	-0.64%	-0.62%
2034	3,621,729	17,943,814	-0.64%	-0.63%
2035	3,598,724	17,828,772	-0.64%	-0.64%
2036	3,575,930	17,712,177	-0.63%	-0.65%
2037	3,552,378	17,595,189	-0.66%	-0.66%
2038	3,528,291	17,477,597	-0.68%	-0.67%
2039	3,504,229	17,360,012	-0.68%	-0.67%
2040	3,480,092	17,242,939	-0.69%	-0.67%
2041	3,455,620	17,124,773	-0.7%	-0.69%
2042	3,430,837	17,006,515	-0.72%	-0.69%
2043	3,405,931	16,888,882	-0.73%	-0.69%
2044	3,380,593	16,770,593	-0.74%	-0.7%
2045	3,355,044	16,652,406	-0.76%	-0.7%
2046	3,329,650	16,534,847	-0.76%	-0.71%
2047	3,304,087	16,416,456	-0.77%	-0.72%
2048	3,278,267	16,297,099	-0.78%	-0.73%
2049	3,252,449	16,177,534	-0.79%	-0.73%
2050	3,226,539	16,058,209	-0.8%	-0.74%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Croatia decreased by 204,292 people (a 4.74% decline), while Romania lost 1,491,493 people (a 7.04% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Croatia lost -293,522 (a 7.15% decline), while Romania's population decreased by -865,374 (a 4.39% decline).

Croatia was ranked 120th most populous country in 2006 and is 129th in 2026. Romania was ranked 51st in 2006 and ranked 70th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Croatia's population will shrink by 15.4% to 3,226,539 people with a rank change from 129th to 139th. The population of Romania will decrease by 14.8% to 16,058,209 people and rank change from 70th to 81st.