The population levels of Croatia are continuing to fall. The Croatian Bureau of Statistics has just released figures which don’t make pleasant reading, the trend of the decrease in population which started in the early nineties shows no signs of slowly up. According to estimates for 2015 the Republic of Croatia has 4,203,604 inhabitants, 2,028,640 men and 2,174,964 women. These figures are a decrease of 34,785 inhabitants compared with 2014, or a drop of 0.8 percent.

This is a country wide problem and not unique to the counties with low unemployment, the only region that saw an increase in population was the City of Zagreb, where an increase of 0.14 percent was recorded.

In 2015 the average age of the total population of the Republic of Croatia was 42.6 years (men 40.7, women 44.3), which places it among the oldest nations in Europe. And an aging population will certainly not help with the problem of the shrinking population.

Photo - Croatian Bureau of Statistics