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	3,866,200	69,226,000	0.17%	1.07%
2025	3,839,102	69,639,673	-0.7%	0.6%
2026	3,813,345	70,020,350	-0.67%	0.55%
2027	3,788,411	70,382,853	-0.65%	0.52%
2028	3,764,412	70,732,699	-0.63%	0.5%
2029	3,740,768	71,061,482	-0.63%	0.46%
2030	3,716,995	71,377,535	-0.64%	0.44%
2031	3,692,964	71,678,351	-0.65%	0.42%
2032	3,668,796	71,959,934	-0.65%	0.39%
2033	3,645,158	72,234,509	-0.64%	0.38%
2034	3,621,729	72,497,650	-0.64%	0.36%
2035	3,598,724	72,749,096	-0.64%	0.35%
2036	3,575,930	72,990,847	-0.63%	0.33%
2037	3,552,378	73,218,850	-0.66%	0.31%
2038	3,528,291	73,441,349	-0.68%	0.3%
2039	3,504,229	73,658,392	-0.68%	0.3%
2040	3,480,092	73,868,334	-0.69%	0.29%
2041	3,455,620	74,074,316	-0.7%	0.28%
2042	3,430,837	74,275,779	-0.72%	0.27%
2043	3,405,931	74,475,035	-0.73%	0.27%
2044	3,380,593	74,667,284	-0.74%	0.26%
2045	3,355,044	74,848,605	-0.76%	0.24%
2046	3,329,650	75,020,949	-0.76%	0.23%
2047	3,304,087	75,184,478	-0.77%	0.22%
2048	3,278,267	75,337,543	-0.78%	0.2%
2049	3,252,449	75,476,141	-0.79%	0.18%
2050	3,226,539	75,600,588	-0.8%	0.16%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Croatia decreased by 204,292 people (a 4.74% decline), while the United Kingdom gained 4,760,180 people (a 7.82% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Croatia lost -293,522 (a 7.15% decline), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,417,311 (a 6.73% growth).

Croatia was ranked 120th most populous country in 2006 and is 129th in 2026. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2006 and ranked 22nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Croatia's population will shrink by 15.4% to 3,226,539 people with a rank change from 129th to 139th. The population of the United Kingdom will increase by 7.96% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.