Population in Croatia compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Croatia and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Croatia	United Kingdom	Croatia	United Kingdom
1960	4,140,181	52,400,000	-	-
1961	4,167,292	52,800,000	0.65%	0.76%
1962	4,196,712	53,250,000	0.71%	0.85%
1963	4,225,675	53,650,000	0.69%	0.75%
1964	4,252,876	54,000,000	0.64%	0.65%
1965	4,280,923	54,348,050	0.66%	0.64%
1966	4,310,701	54,648,500	0.7%	0.55%
1967	4,338,683	54,943,600	0.65%	0.54%
1968	4,365,628	55,211,700	0.62%	0.49%
1969	4,391,490	55,441,750	0.59%	0.42%
1970	4,412,252	55,663,250	0.47%	0.4%
1971	4,431,275	55,896,223	0.43%	0.42%
1972	4,450,564	56,086,065	0.44%	0.34%
1973	4,470,161	56,194,527	0.44%	0.19%
1974	4,490,660	56,229,974	0.46%	0.06%
1975	4,512,082	56,225,800	0.48%	-0.007%
1976	4,535,934	56,211,968	0.53%	-0.02%
1977	4,559,571	56,193,492	0.52%	-0.03%
1978	4,581,085	56,196,504	0.47%	0.005%
1979	4,594,778	56,246,951	0.3%	0.09%
1980	4,599,782	56,314,216	0.11%	0.12%
1981	4,611,509	56,333,829	0.25%	0.03%
1982	4,634,234	56,313,641	0.49%	-0.04%
1983	4,658,254	56,332,848	0.52%	0.03%
1984	4,680,285	56,422,072	0.47%	0.16%
1985	4,701,417	56,550,268	0.45%	0.23%
1986	4,721,446	56,681,396	0.43%	0.23%
1987	4,739,745	56,802,050	0.39%	0.21%
1988	4,755,207	56,928,327	0.33%	0.22%
1989	4,767,260	57,076,711	0.25%	0.26%
1990	4,777,368	57,247,586	0.21%	0.3%
1991	4,689,022	57,424,897	-1.85%	0.31%
1992	4,575,818	57,580,402	-2.41%	0.27%
1993	4,600,463	57,718,614	0.54%	0.24%
1994	4,652,024	57,865,745	1.12%	0.25%
1995	4,620,030	58,019,030	-0.69%	0.26%
1996	4,557,097	58,166,950	-1.36%	0.25%
1997	4,534,920	58,316,954	-0.49%	0.26%
1998	4,532,135	58,487,141	-0.06%	0.29%
1999	4,512,597	58,682,466	-0.43%	0.33%
2000	4,468,302	58,892,514	-0.98%	0.36%
2001	4,299,642	59,119,673	-3.77%	0.39%
2002	4,302,174	59,370,479	0.06%	0.42%
2003	4,303,399	59,647,577	0.03%	0.47%
2004	4,304,600	59,987,905	0.03%	0.57%
2005	4,310,145	60,401,206	0.13%	0.69%
2006	4,311,159	60,846,820	0.02%	0.74%
2007	4,310,217	61,322,463	-0.02%	0.78%
2008	4,309,705	61,806,995	-0.01%	0.79%
2009	4,305,181	62,276,270	-0.1%	0.76%
2010	4,295,427	62,766,365	-0.23%	0.79%
2011	4,280,622	63,258,810	-0.34%	0.78%
2012	4,260,368	63,711,000	-0.47%	0.71%
2013	4,233,922	64,139,000	-0.62%	0.67%
2014	4,201,598	64,620,000	-0.76%	0.75%
2015	4,151,725	65,088,000	-1.19%	0.72%
2016	4,106,867	65,607,000	-1.08%	0.8%
2017	4,041,407	65,966,000	-1.59%	0.55%
2018	3,988,775	66,289,000	-1.3%	0.49%
2019	3,949,390	66,631,000	-0.99%	0.52%
2020	3,914,206	66,744,000	-0.89%	0.17%
2021	3,878,981	66,984,000	-0.9%	0.36%
2022	3,855,641	67,604,000	-0.6%	0.93%
2023	3,859,686	68,492,000	0.1%	1.31%
2024	3,866,300	69,226,000	0.17%	1.07%
2025	3,839,202	69,639,673	-0.7%	0.6%
2026	3,813,444	70,020,350	-0.67%	0.55%
2027	3,788,509	70,382,853	-0.65%	0.52%
2028	3,764,509	70,732,699	-0.63%	0.5%
2029	3,740,864	71,061,482	-0.63%	0.46%
2030	3,717,091	71,377,535	-0.64%	0.44%
2031	3,693,060	71,678,351	-0.65%	0.42%
2032	3,668,891	71,959,934	-0.65%	0.39%
2033	3,645,252	72,234,509	-0.64%	0.38%
2034	3,621,822	72,497,650	-0.64%	0.36%
2035	3,598,817	72,749,096	-0.64%	0.35%
2036	3,576,022	72,990,847	-0.63%	0.33%
2037	3,552,470	73,218,850	-0.66%	0.31%
2038	3,528,382	73,441,349	-0.68%	0.3%
2039	3,504,319	73,658,392	-0.68%	0.3%
2040	3,480,182	73,868,334	-0.69%	0.29%
2041	3,455,709	74,074,316	-0.7%	0.28%
2042	3,430,926	74,275,779	-0.72%	0.27%
2043	3,406,019	74,475,035	-0.73%	0.27%
2044	3,380,680	74,667,284	-0.74%	0.26%
2045	3,355,131	74,848,605	-0.76%	0.24%
2046	3,329,736	75,020,949	-0.76%	0.23%
2047	3,304,173	75,184,478	-0.77%	0.22%
2048	3,278,352	75,337,543	-0.78%	0.2%
2049	3,252,533	75,476,141	-0.79%	0.18%
2050	3,226,623	75,600,588	-0.8%	0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Croatia decreased by 158,420 people (a 3.68% decline), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Croatia lost -312,523 (a 7.53% decline), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Croatia was ranked 117th most populous country in 2005 and is 129th in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd 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 the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.