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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Croatia	South Korea	Croatia	South Korea
1960	4,140,181	25,012,374	-	-
1961	4,167,292	25,765,673	0.65%	3.01%
1962	4,196,712	26,513,030	0.71%	2.9%
1963	4,225,675	27,261,747	0.69%	2.82%
1964	4,252,876	27,984,155	0.64%	2.65%
1965	4,280,923	28,704,674	0.66%	2.57%
1966	4,310,701	29,435,571	0.7%	2.55%
1967	4,338,683	30,130,983	0.65%	2.36%
1968	4,365,628	30,838,302	0.62%	2.35%
1969	4,391,490	31,544,266	0.59%	2.29%
1970	4,412,252	32,240,827	0.47%	2.21%
1971	4,431,275	32,882,704	0.43%	1.99%
1972	4,450,564	33,505,406	0.44%	1.89%
1973	4,470,161	34,103,149	0.44%	1.78%
1974	4,490,660	34,692,266	0.46%	1.73%
1975	4,512,082	35,280,725	0.48%	1.7%
1976	4,535,934	35,848,523	0.53%	1.61%
1977	4,559,571	36,411,795	0.52%	1.57%
1978	4,581,085	36,969,185	0.47%	1.53%
1979	4,594,778	37,534,236	0.3%	1.53%
1980	4,599,782	38,123,775	0.11%	1.57%
1981	4,611,509	38,723,248	0.25%	1.57%
1982	4,634,234	39,326,352	0.49%	1.56%
1983	4,658,254	39,910,403	0.52%	1.49%
1984	4,680,285	40,405,956	0.47%	1.24%
1985	4,701,417	40,805,744	0.45%	0.99%
1986	4,721,446	41,213,674	0.43%	1%
1987	4,739,745	41,621,690	0.39%	0.99%
1988	4,755,207	42,031,247	0.33%	0.98%
1989	4,767,260	42,449,038	0.25%	0.99%
1990	4,777,368	42,869,283	0.21%	0.99%
1991	4,689,022	43,295,704	-1.85%	0.99%
1992	4,575,818	43,747,962	-2.41%	1.04%
1993	4,600,463	44,194,628	0.54%	1.02%
1994	4,652,024	44,641,540	1.12%	1.01%
1995	4,620,030	45,092,991	-0.69%	1.01%
1996	4,557,097	45,524,681	-1.36%	0.96%
1997	4,534,920	45,953,580	-0.49%	0.94%
1998	4,532,135	46,286,503	-0.06%	0.72%
1999	4,512,597	46,616,677	-0.43%	0.71%
2000	4,468,302	47,008,111	-0.98%	0.84%
2001	4,299,642	47,370,164	-3.77%	0.77%
2002	4,302,174	47,644,736	0.06%	0.58%
2003	4,303,399	47,892,330	0.03%	0.52%
2004	4,304,600	48,082,519	0.03%	0.4%
2005	4,310,145	48,184,561	0.13%	0.21%
2006	4,311,159	48,438,292	0.02%	0.53%
2007	4,310,217	48,683,638	-0.02%	0.51%
2008	4,309,705	49,054,708	-0.01%	0.76%
2009	4,305,181	49,307,835	-0.1%	0.52%
2010	4,295,427	49,554,112	-0.23%	0.5%
2011	4,280,622	49,936,638	-0.34%	0.77%
2012	4,260,368	50,199,853	-0.47%	0.53%
2013	4,233,922	50,428,893	-0.62%	0.46%
2014	4,201,598	50,746,659	-0.76%	0.63%
2015	4,151,725	51,014,947	-1.19%	0.53%
2016	4,106,867	51,217,803	-1.08%	0.4%
2017	4,041,407	51,361,911	-1.59%	0.28%
2018	3,988,775	51,585,058	-1.3%	0.43%
2019	3,949,390	51,764,822	-0.99%	0.35%
2020	3,914,206	51,836,239	-0.89%	0.14%
2021	3,878,981	51,769,539	-0.9%	-0.13%
2022	3,855,641	51,672,569	-0.6%	-0.19%
2023	3,859,686	51,712,619	0.1%	0.08%
2024	3,866,300	51,751,065	0.17%	0.07%
2025	3,839,202	51,700,480	-0.7%	-0.1%
2026	3,813,444	51,633,793	-0.67%	-0.13%
2027	3,788,509	51,552,198	-0.65%	-0.16%
2028	3,764,509	51,456,707	-0.63%	-0.19%
2029	3,740,864	51,347,230	-0.63%	-0.21%
2030	3,717,091	51,221,713	-0.64%	-0.24%
2031	3,693,060	51,081,220	-0.65%	-0.27%
2032	3,668,891	50,924,233	-0.65%	-0.31%
2033	3,645,252	50,747,132	-0.64%	-0.35%
2034	3,621,822	50,549,508	-0.64%	-0.39%
2035	3,598,817	50,333,286	-0.64%	-0.43%
2036	3,576,022	50,098,951	-0.63%	-0.47%
2037	3,552,470	49,845,669	-0.66%	-0.51%
2038	3,528,382	49,573,234	-0.68%	-0.55%
2039	3,504,319	49,283,770	-0.68%	-0.58%
2040	3,480,182	48,980,369	-0.69%	-0.62%
2041	3,455,709	48,661,905	-0.7%	-0.65%
2042	3,430,926	48,331,004	-0.72%	-0.68%
2043	3,406,019	47,990,085	-0.73%	-0.71%
2044	3,380,680	47,634,183	-0.74%	-0.74%
2045	3,355,131	47,263,526	-0.76%	-0.78%
2046	3,329,736	46,881,228	-0.76%	-0.81%
2047	3,304,173	46,482,133	-0.77%	-0.85%
2048	3,278,352	46,063,595	-0.78%	-0.9%
2049	3,252,533	45,626,805	-0.79%	-0.95%
2050	3,226,623	45,172,356	-0.8%	-1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Croatia decreased by 158,420 people (a 3.68% decline), while South Korea gained 2,830,386 people (a 5.87% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Croatia lost -312,523 (a 7.53% decline), while South Korea's population increased by 685,533 (a 1.34% growth).

Croatia was ranked 117th most populous country in 2005 and is 129th in 2025. South Korea was ranked 25th in 2005 and ranked 31st 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 South Korea will decrease by 12.6% to 45,172,356 people and rank change from 31st to 48th.