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The demographic features of the population of Croatia includes population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Croatia is inhabited mostly by Croats, while minority groups include Serbs, Bosniaks, Hungarians, Italians, Slovenes, Germans, Czechs, Romani people and others. Catholicism is the predominant religion, while there's also Eastern Orthodoxy and Islam.

Croatia has a negative natural population growth rate, having completed demographic transition in the 1970s.[1] Life expectancy and literacy rates are reasonably high.

Croatia ethnic map.
Demographics of Croatia, Data of FAO, year 2005 ; Number of inhabitants in thousands.

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CIA World Factbook demographic statistics

The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.

Population

4.492 million (July 2008)

Age structure

0-14 years: 15,8% (male 373,638/female 354,261)
15-64 years: 67,2% (male 1,497,958/female 1,515,314)
65 years and over: 17% (male 288,480/female 465,098) (2008 est.)

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Median age

Total: 40.3 years
Male: 38.3 years
Female: 42.1 years (2006 est.)

Population growth rate

-1.9% (2008,CROSTAT)

Birth rate

9.9 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • There were 41,446 births in 2006. [1]

Death rate

11.8 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • There were 50,378 deaths in 2006. [2]

Net migration rate

1.58 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2008 est.)

Sex ratio

At birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
Under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.62 male(s)/female
Total population: 0.94 male(s)/female (2006 est.)

Infant mortality rate

Total: 6.49 deaths/1,000 live births
Male: 6.51 deaths/1,000 live births
Female: 6.46 deaths/1,000 live births (2008 est.)

Life expectancy at birth

Total population: 75.13 years
Male: 71.49 years
Female: 78.97 years (2008 est.)

HIV/AIDS

Adult prevalence rate: less than 0.1% (2001 est.)
People living with HIV/AIDS: 200 (2001 est.)
Deaths: less than 10 (2001 est.)

Nationality

Noun: Croat(s), Croatian(s)
Adjective: Croatian

Ethnic groups

Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, Bosniak 0.5%, Italians 0.4%, Hungarian 0.4%, Slovene 0.3%, Czech 0.2%, Roma 0.2%, Albanian 0.1%, Montenegrin 0.1%, others 4.1% (2001 census)

Religions

Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, other Christian 0.4%, Muslim 1.3%, other and unspecified 0.9%, none 5.2% (2001 census)

Languages

Croatian 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated 2.9% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, and German) (2001 census).
According to a survey ordered by the European commission, 49% of Croats speak English, 34% German, 14% Italian, 4% French and Russian and 2% Spanish language. [2]

Literacy

Definition: age 15 and over can read and write
Total population: 98.5%
Male: 99.4%
Female: 97.8% (2003 est.)

School Life Expectancy total: 14 years male: 13 years female: 14 years

Education Expenditure: (% of GDP) 4.5 (2004)

Ethnic groups according to the 2001 census

Population Structure (%)
Total 4,437,460 100
Croats 3,977,171 89.63
National minorities
Total 331,383 7,47
Albanians 15,082 0.34
Austrians 247 0.01
Bosniaks 20,755 0.47
Bulgarians 331 0.01
Czechs 10,510 0.24
Germans 2,902 0.07
Hungarians 16,595 0.37
Italians 19,636 0.44
Jews 576 0.01
Macedonians 4.270 0.10
Montenegrins 4,926 0.11
Poles 567 0.01
Roma 9,463 0.21
Romanians 475 0.01
Russians 906 0.02
Ruthenians 2,337 0.05
Serbs 201,631 4.54
Slovaks 4,712 0.11
Slovenes 13,173 0.30
Turks 300 0.01
Ukrainians 1,977 0.04
Vlachs 12 0.00
Others1 21,801 0.49
Refrained from stating
their nationality
Total 89,130 2.01
stated regional
affiliation 9,302 0.21
Unknown 17,975 0.41

1 This mode includes, among others, Yugoslavs (176) and Muslims by nationality (19,677).

Changes in the late 20th century

See also: Recent history of the Serbs of Croatia

The census of 1991 was the last one held before the war in Croatia, marked by ethnic conflict between Serbs and Croats. In the ethnic and religious composition of the population of Croatia of that time, these two sets of numbers are quoted as important:

  • Croats 78.1%, Catholics 76.5%
  • Serbs 12.2%, Orthodox Christians 11.1%

There was also a significant drop in people who declared Yugoslav ethnicity.

There were two major sets of population movements during this period - the first one during the earlier stage of the war, around 1991, and the second one during the later stage of the war, around 1995. The first movement peaked at around 200,000 on the Croatian side; the second movement peaked at around 550,000 on the Serbian side.

After the end of the war of the 1990s, as a result of all which took place previously, the ethno-religious structure for the two largest nations were:

  • Croats 89.6%, Catholics 87.8%
  • Serbs 4.5%, Orthodox Christians 4.4%

Most Croat refugees have since returned to their homes, while two thirds of the Serbs remain in exile; the other third either returned or had remained in Zagreb and other parts of Croatia not directly affected by war.

See also

References

  • Croatian Bureau of Statistics, official census data
  1. ^ Mrđen, Snježana (1998). "The demographic situation in Croatia". Geoadria 3: 29–56. http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/14991. 
  2. ^ "Europeans and their languages - European commission special barometer FEB2006". http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_243_en.pdf. Retrieved 2010-1-5. 

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