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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Croatia was 3,866,300 in 2024 vs 71,668,011 people in Thailand in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Croatia's population is 3,839,202 people compared to 71,619,867 in Thailand.

Population statistics:

  • Thailand's population is 18.7 times bigger than Croatia's.
  • Croatia is ranked the 129th most populous country in the world, while Thailand is the 21st.
  • The countries together account for 0.91% of the world: 0.05% for Croatia vs 0.87% for Thailand.
  • For the last 10 years, Croatia has had an average growth rate of -0.82% per year vs +0.23% in Thailand.
  • Since 2005, the population of Croatia has decreased from 4.31M people to 3.84M (10.9% decline), while Thailand has grown from 66M to 71.6M (8.49% growth).
  • Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 31.8% of the population in Croatia and 22.9% in Thailand.

Croatia vs Thailand: live population counter

Croatia Thailand
Current population
3839202
71619867
Population rank 129/197 21/197
Percent of world population 0.05% 0.87%
One net population change
1.32 hours
15.3 minutes
One birth every
16.4 minutes
53.3 seconds
One death every
10.2 minutes
49.5 seconds
One migration net change every
1.69 hours
22.5 minutes
Annual migration change -5,186 +23,321
Daily growth/decline +18 -94
Annual growth/decline +6,614 -34,424
Annual growth/decline rate +0.17% -0.05%
Population growth rate rank 155/197 170/197

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

Croatia
Population

Growth rate
Thailand
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Croatia Thailand Croatia Thailand
1960 4,140,181 26,851,747 - -
1961 4,167,292 27,650,334 0.65% 2.97%
1962 4,196,712 28,481,040 0.71% 3%
1963 4,225,675 29,342,322 0.69% 3.02%
1964 4,252,876 30,232,141 0.64% 3.03%
1965 4,280,923 31,149,337 0.66% 3.03%
1966 4,310,701 32,086,071 0.7% 3.01%
1967 4,338,683 33,037,801 0.65% 2.97%
1968 4,365,628 34,002,560 0.62% 2.92%
1969 4,391,490 34,973,782 0.59% 2.86%
1970 4,412,252 35,954,408 0.47% 2.8%
1971 4,431,275 36,937,387 0.43% 2.73%
1972 4,450,564 37,933,929 0.44% 2.7%
1973 4,470,161 38,947,787 0.44% 2.67%
1974 4,490,660 39,952,891 0.46% 2.58%
1975 4,512,082 40,940,005 0.48% 2.47%
1976 4,535,934 41,896,504 0.53% 2.34%
1977 4,559,571 42,843,974 0.52% 2.26%
1978 4,581,085 43,788,976 0.47% 2.21%
1979 4,594,778 44,718,434 0.3% 2.12%
1980 4,599,782 45,650,022 0.11% 2.08%
1981 4,611,509 46,575,855 0.25% 2.03%
1982 4,634,234 47,494,577 0.49% 1.97%
1983 4,658,254 48,423,309 0.52% 1.96%
1984 4,680,285 49,351,708 0.47% 1.92%
1985 4,701,417 50,270,753 0.45% 1.86%
1986 4,721,446 51,177,834 0.43% 1.8%
1987 4,739,745 52,074,105 0.39% 1.75%
1988 4,755,207 52,969,595 0.33% 1.72%
1989 4,767,260 53,848,956 0.25% 1.66%
1990 4,777,368 54,738,329 0.21% 1.65%
1991 4,689,022 55,637,434 -1.85% 1.64%
1992 4,575,818 56,528,834 -2.41% 1.6%
1993 4,600,463 57,408,198 0.54% 1.56%
1994 4,652,024 58,260,854 1.12% 1.49%
1995 4,620,030 59,098,232 -0.69% 1.44%
1996 4,557,097 59,920,064 -1.36% 1.39%
1997 4,534,920 60,724,584 -0.49% 1.34%
1998 4,532,135 61,522,630 -0.06% 1.31%
1999 4,512,597 62,299,043 -0.43% 1.26%
2000 4,468,302 63,007,815 -0.98% 1.14%
2001 4,299,642 63,651,141 -3.77% 1.02%
2002 4,302,174 64,266,437 0.06% 0.97%
2003 4,303,399 64,868,166 0.03% 0.94%
2004 4,304,600 65,452,047 0.03% 0.9%
2005 4,310,145 66,017,420 0.13% 0.86%
2006 4,311,159 66,567,687 0.02% 0.83%
2007 4,310,217 67,102,394 -0.02% 0.8%
2008 4,309,705 67,619,830 -0.01% 0.77%
2009 4,305,181 68,121,080 -0.1% 0.74%
2010 4,295,427 68,579,447 -0.23% 0.67%
2011 4,280,622 69,007,208 -0.34% 0.62%
2012 4,260,368 69,436,098 -0.47% 0.62%
2013 4,233,922 69,845,114 -0.62% 0.59%
2014 4,201,598 70,216,367 -0.76% 0.53%
2015 4,151,725 70,540,795 -1.19% 0.46%
2016 4,106,867 70,859,841 -1.08% 0.45%
2017 4,041,407 71,160,187 -1.59% 0.42%
2018 3,988,775 71,376,079 -1.3% 0.3%
2019 3,949,390 71,522,271 -0.99% 0.2%
2020 3,914,206 71,641,484 -0.89% 0.17%
2021 3,878,981 71,727,332 -0.9% 0.12%
2022 3,855,641 71,735,329 -0.6% 0.01%
2023 3,859,686 71,702,435 0.1% -0.05%
2024 3,866,300 71,668,011 0.17% -0.05%
2025 3,839,202 71,619,867 -0.7% -0.07%
2026 3,813,444 71,559,621 -0.67% -0.08%
2027 3,788,509 71,488,156 -0.65% -0.1%
2028 3,764,509 71,406,996 -0.63% -0.11%
2029 3,740,864 71,316,195 -0.63% -0.13%
2030 3,717,091 71,215,017 -0.64% -0.14%
2031 3,693,060 71,104,025 -0.65% -0.16%
2032 3,668,891 70,982,286 -0.65% -0.17%
2033 3,645,252 70,847,947 -0.64% -0.19%
2034 3,621,822 70,701,651 -0.64% -0.21%
2035 3,598,817 70,540,884 -0.64% -0.23%
2036 3,576,022 70,366,496 -0.63% -0.25%
2037 3,552,470 70,180,031 -0.66% -0.26%
2038 3,528,382 69,979,034 -0.68% -0.29%
2039 3,504,319 69,763,928 -0.68% -0.31%
2040 3,480,182 69,535,003 -0.69% -0.33%
2041 3,455,709 69,288,477 -0.7% -0.35%
2042 3,430,926 69,025,348 -0.72% -0.38%
2043 3,406,019 68,748,075 -0.73% -0.4%
2044 3,380,680 68,456,533 -0.74% -0.42%
2045 3,355,131 68,150,148 -0.76% -0.45%
2046 3,329,736 67,827,309 -0.76% -0.47%
2047 3,304,173 67,489,358 -0.77% -0.5%
2048 3,278,352 67,136,737 -0.78% -0.52%
2049 3,252,533 66,767,316 -0.79% -0.55%
2050 3,226,623 66,382,732 -0.8% -0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Croatia decreased by 158,420 people (a 3.68% decline), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Croatia lost -312,523 (a 7.53% decline), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Croatia was ranked 117th most populous country in 2005 and is 129th in 2025. Thailand was ranked 19th in 2005 and ranked 21st 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 Thailand will decrease by 7.31% to 66,382,732 people and rank change from 21st to 31st.

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