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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Croatia was 3,866,300 in 2024 vs 104,175 people in Tonga in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Croatia's population is 3,839,202 people compared to 103,744 in Tonga.

Population statistics:

  • Croatia's population is 37 times bigger than Tonga's.
  • Croatia is ranked the 129th most populous country in the world, while Tonga is the 183rd.
  • The countries together account for 0.05% of the world: 0.05% for Croatia vs 0.001% for Tonga.
  • For the last 10 years, Croatia has had an average growth rate of -0.82% per year vs -0.25% in Tonga.
  • Since 2005, the population of Croatia has decreased from 4.31M people to 3.84M (10.9% decline), while Tonga has declined from 106K to 104K (1.82% decline).
  • Tonga is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 118K people, while Croatia's population already peaked in 1990 at 4.78M people and is projected to decrease to 2.14M people by 2100.

Croatia vs Tonga: live population counter

Croatia Tonga
Current population
3839202
103744
Population rank 129/197 183/197
Percent of world population 0.05% 0.001%
One net population change
1.32 hours
20.8 hours
One birth every
16.4 minutes
3.62 hours
One death every
10.2 minutes
13 hours
One migration net change every
1.69 hours
4.08 hours
Annual migration change -5,186 -2,149
Daily growth/decline +18 -1
Annual growth/decline +6,614 -422
Annual growth/decline rate +0.17% -0.4%
Population growth rate rank 155/197 181/197

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

Croatia
Population

Growth rate
Tonga
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Croatia Tonga Croatia Tonga
1960 4,140,181 66,170 - -
1961 4,167,292 68,037 0.65% 2.82%
1962 4,196,712 69,940 0.71% 2.8%
1963 4,225,675 71,885 0.69% 2.78%
1964 4,252,876 73,879 0.64% 2.77%
1965 4,280,923 75,924 0.66% 2.77%
1966 4,310,701 78,002 0.7% 2.74%
1967 4,338,683 79,814 0.65% 2.32%
1968 4,365,628 81,353 0.62% 1.93%
1969 4,391,490 82,885 0.59% 1.88%
1970 4,412,252 84,401 0.47% 1.83%
1971 4,431,275 85,896 0.43% 1.77%
1972 4,450,564 87,356 0.44% 1.7%
1973 4,470,161 88,805 0.44% 1.66%
1974 4,490,660 90,683 0.46% 2.11%
1975 4,512,082 93,017 0.48% 2.57%
1976 4,535,934 95,325 0.53% 2.48%
1977 4,559,571 96,725 0.52% 1.47%
1978 4,581,085 97,204 0.47% 0.5%
1979 4,594,778 97,544 0.3% 0.35%
1980 4,599,782 97,769 0.11% 0.23%
1981 4,611,509 97,909 0.25% 0.14%
1982 4,634,234 97,980 0.49% 0.07%
1983 4,658,254 97,998 0.52% 0.02%
1984 4,680,285 97,990 0.47% -0.008%
1985 4,701,417 97,984 0.45% -0.006%
1986 4,721,446 98,010 0.43% 0.03%
1987 4,739,745 98,376 0.39% 0.37%
1988 4,755,207 98,969 0.33% 0.6%
1989 4,767,260 99,403 0.25% 0.44%
1990 4,777,368 99,700 0.21% 0.3%
1991 4,689,022 99,895 -1.85% 0.2%
1992 4,575,818 100,022 -2.41% 0.13%
1993 4,600,463 100,103 0.54% 0.08%
1994 4,652,024 100,166 1.12% 0.06%
1995 4,620,030 100,225 -0.69% 0.06%
1996 4,557,097 100,275 -1.36% 0.05%
1997 4,534,920 100,674 -0.49% 0.4%
1998 4,532,135 101,388 -0.06% 0.71%
1999 4,512,597 102,046 -0.43% 0.65%
2000 4,468,302 102,677 -0.98% 0.62%
2001 4,299,642 103,288 -3.77% 0.6%
2002 4,302,174 103,874 0.06% 0.57%
2003 4,303,399 104,464 0.03% 0.57%
2004 4,304,600 105,071 0.03% 0.58%
2005 4,310,145 105,671 0.13% 0.57%
2006 4,311,159 106,253 0.02% 0.55%
2007 4,310,217 106,726 -0.02% 0.45%
2008 4,309,705 107,020 -0.01% 0.28%
2009 4,305,181 107,203 -0.1% 0.17%
2010 4,295,427 107,400 -0.23% 0.18%
2011 4,280,622 107,570 -0.34% 0.16%
2012 4,260,368 107,460 -0.47% -0.1%
2013 4,233,922 107,078 -0.62% -0.36%
2014 4,201,598 106,609 -0.76% -0.44%
2015 4,151,725 106,095 -1.19% -0.48%
2016 4,106,867 105,524 -1.08% -0.54%
2017 4,041,407 105,356 -1.59% -0.16%
2018 3,988,775 105,567 -1.3% 0.2%
2019 3,949,390 105,669 -0.99% 0.1%
2020 3,914,206 105,704 -0.89% 0.03%
2021 3,878,981 105,490 -0.9% -0.2%
2022 3,855,641 105,042 -0.6% -0.42%
2023 3,859,686 104,597 0.1% -0.42%
2024 3,866,300 104,175 0.17% -0.4%
2025 3,839,202 103,744 -0.7% -0.41%
2026 3,813,444 103,290 -0.67% -0.44%
2027 3,788,509 102,899 -0.65% -0.38%
2028 3,764,509 102,568 -0.63% -0.32%
2029 3,740,864 102,280 -0.63% -0.28%
2030 3,717,091 102,069 -0.64% -0.21%
2031 3,693,060 101,927 -0.65% -0.14%
2032 3,668,891 101,837 -0.65% -0.09%
2033 3,645,252 101,807 -0.64% -0.03%
2034 3,621,822 101,806 -0.64% -0.001%
2035 3,598,817 101,833 -0.64% 0.03%
2036 3,576,022 101,895 -0.63% 0.06%
2037 3,552,470 101,993 -0.66% 0.1%
2038 3,528,382 102,173 -0.68% 0.18%
2039 3,504,319 102,367 -0.68% 0.19%
2040 3,480,182 102,568 -0.69% 0.2%
2041 3,455,709 102,805 -0.7% 0.23%
2042 3,430,926 103,038 -0.72% 0.23%
2043 3,406,019 103,306 -0.73% 0.26%
2044 3,380,680 103,612 -0.74% 0.3%
2045 3,355,131 103,928 -0.76% 0.3%
2046 3,329,736 104,232 -0.76% 0.29%
2047 3,304,173 104,502 -0.77% 0.26%
2048 3,278,352 104,744 -0.78% 0.23%
2049 3,252,533 104,975 -0.79% 0.22%
2050 3,226,623 105,193 -0.8% 0.21%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Croatia decreased by 158,420 people (a 3.68% decline), while Tonga gained 424 people (a 0.4% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Croatia lost -312,523 (a 7.53% decline), while Tonga's population decreased by -2,351 (a 2.22% decline).

Croatia was ranked 117th most populous country in 2005 and is 129th in 2025. Tonga was ranked 182nd in 2005 and ranked 183rd 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 Tonga will increase by 1.4% to 105,193 people and will still be ranked 183rd.

Biggest cities by population

Tonga
City Population
Nukualofa 23.2K
Mua 5K

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