CROATIA
Population

Cities in CROATIA

Dubrovnik	Porec	Pula
Split	Zadar	Zagreb

Population

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Most of the population (90%) consists of Croats (2017), a people of mixed Iranian-Gothic-Slavic origin, who acquired their ethnic identity after the migrations of Ostrogoths, Avars and Slavs (early 7th century) and linguistically the Slavic peoples. In the popular vote of 1991, 12% of the population was Serbs, but their number has decreased rapidly due to emigration from especially the Krajina and Western Slavonia to Serbia as a result of the war in the first half of the 1990s. The share of Serbs in 2017 is 4.4%. Many Croats still live abroad, most of them as guest workers (an estimated 300,000). Many refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina also live in Croatia. Approx. 57% of the population lives in the cities. (2017)

There are 4,292,095 people living in Croatia. (2017)

Population growth is -0.5% (2017)

The structure is as follows:

00-14 years 14.2%

15-64 years 66.5%

65+ 19.3%

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Sources

Encarta Encyclopedie

Oliver, J / Croatia
Lonely Planet

Waard, P de / Reishandboek Kroatie
Elmar,

CIA - World Factbook

BBC - Country Profiles

Last updated March 2024
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