Population in Croatia compared to Sri Lanka: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Croatia and Sri Lanka: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Croatia	Sri Lanka	Croatia	Sri Lanka
1960	4,140,181	9,661,389	-	-
1961	4,167,292	9,899,372	0.65%	2.46%
1962	4,196,712	10,143,754	0.71%	2.47%
1963	4,225,675	10,395,040	0.69%	2.48%
1964	4,252,876	10,653,397	0.64%	2.49%
1965	4,280,923	10,916,965	0.66%	2.47%
1966	4,310,701	11,183,928	0.7%	2.45%
1967	4,338,683	11,457,328	0.65%	2.44%
1968	4,365,628	11,736,088	0.62%	2.43%
1969	4,391,490	12,013,858	0.59%	2.37%
1970	4,412,252	12,287,110	0.47%	2.27%
1971	4,431,275	12,551,910	0.43%	2.16%
1972	4,450,564	12,809,205	0.44%	2.05%
1973	4,470,161	13,060,916	0.44%	1.97%
1974	4,490,660	13,305,693	0.46%	1.87%
1975	4,512,082	13,548,984	0.48%	1.83%
1976	4,535,934	13,796,770	0.53%	1.83%
1977	4,559,571	14,049,371	0.52%	1.83%
1978	4,581,085	14,310,128	0.47%	1.86%
1979	4,594,778	14,579,614	0.3%	1.88%
1980	4,599,782	14,847,974	0.11%	1.84%
1981	4,611,509	15,099,414	0.25%	1.69%
1982	4,634,234	15,286,567	0.49%	1.24%
1983	4,658,254	15,388,794	0.52%	0.67%
1984	4,680,285	15,441,860	0.47%	0.34%
1985	4,701,417	15,544,154	0.45%	0.66%
1986	4,721,446	15,731,256	0.43%	1.2%
1987	4,739,745	15,916,576	0.39%	1.18%
1988	4,755,207	16,078,621	0.33%	1.02%
1989	4,767,260	16,248,557	0.25%	1.06%
1990	4,777,368	16,352,458	0.21%	0.64%
1991	4,689,022	16,475,354	-1.85%	0.75%
1992	4,575,818	16,739,284	-2.41%	1.6%
1993	4,600,463	17,025,918	0.54%	1.71%
1994	4,652,024	17,275,773	1.12%	1.47%
1995	4,620,030	17,564,068	-0.69%	1.67%
1996	4,557,097	17,905,018	-1.36%	1.94%
1997	4,534,920	18,248,200	-0.49%	1.92%
1998	4,532,135	18,596,003	-0.06%	1.91%
1999	4,512,597	18,944,731	-0.43%	1.88%
2000	4,468,302	19,293,054	-0.98%	1.84%
2001	4,299,642	19,600,362	-3.77%	1.59%
2002	4,302,174	19,805,752	0.06%	1.05%
2003	4,303,399	19,951,521	0.03%	0.74%
2004	4,304,600	20,087,605	0.03%	0.68%
2005	4,310,145	20,216,524	0.13%	0.64%
2006	4,311,159	20,352,411	0.02%	0.67%
2007	4,310,217	20,492,545	-0.02%	0.69%
2008	4,309,705	20,629,378	-0.01%	0.67%
2009	4,305,181	20,756,435	-0.1%	0.62%
2010	4,295,427	20,879,089	-0.23%	0.59%
2011	4,280,622	21,009,048	-0.34%	0.62%
2012	4,260,368	21,169,458	-0.47%	0.76%
2013	4,233,922	20,585,000	-0.62%	-2.76%
2014	4,201,598	20,778,000	-0.76%	0.94%
2015	4,151,725	20,970,000	-1.19%	0.92%
2016	4,106,867	21,209,000	-1.08%	1.14%
2017	4,041,407	21,453,000	-1.59%	1.15%
2018	3,988,775	21,670,000	-1.3%	1.01%
2019	3,949,390	21,803,000	-0.99%	0.61%
2020	3,914,206	21,919,000	-0.89%	0.53%
2021	3,878,981	22,156,000	-0.9%	1.08%
2022	3,855,641	22,181,000	-0.6%	0.11%
2023	3,859,686	22,037,000	0.1%	-0.65%
2024	3,866,300	21,916,000	0.17%	-0.55%
2025	3,839,202	22,035,440	-0.7%	0.54%
2026	3,813,444	22,148,172	-0.67%	0.51%
2027	3,788,509	22,255,601	-0.65%	0.49%
2028	3,764,509	22,357,682	-0.63%	0.46%
2029	3,740,864	22,453,922	-0.63%	0.43%
2030	3,717,091	22,546,245	-0.64%	0.41%
2031	3,693,060	22,635,106	-0.65%	0.39%
2032	3,668,891	22,720,118	-0.65%	0.38%
2033	3,645,252	22,802,043	-0.64%	0.36%
2034	3,621,822	22,879,527	-0.64%	0.34%
2035	3,598,817	22,952,739	-0.64%	0.32%
2036	3,576,022	23,022,027	-0.63%	0.3%
2037	3,552,470	23,088,877	-0.66%	0.29%
2038	3,528,382	23,152,480	-0.68%	0.28%
2039	3,504,319	23,211,633	-0.68%	0.26%
2040	3,480,182	23,265,986	-0.69%	0.23%
2041	3,455,709	23,315,260	-0.7%	0.21%
2042	3,430,926	23,359,578	-0.72%	0.19%
2043	3,406,019	23,398,752	-0.73%	0.17%
2044	3,380,680	23,433,096	-0.74%	0.15%
2045	3,355,131	23,464,943	-0.76%	0.14%
2046	3,329,736	23,492,738	-0.76%	0.12%
2047	3,304,173	23,512,629	-0.77%	0.08%
2048	3,278,352	23,525,953	-0.78%	0.06%
2049	3,252,533	23,533,940	-0.79%	0.03%
2050	3,226,623	23,538,230	-0.8%	0.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Croatia decreased by 158,420 people (a 3.68% decline), while Sri Lanka gained 753,476 people (a 3.73% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Croatia lost -312,523 (a 7.53% decline), while Sri Lanka's population increased by 1,155,995 (a 5.51% growth).

Croatia was ranked 117th most populous country in 2005 and is 129th in 2025. Sri Lanka was ranked 53rd in 2005 and ranked 63rd 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 Sri Lanka will increase by 6.38% to 23,538,230 people and rank change from 63rd to 70th.