Croatia’s population is shrinking rapidly. According to a new report published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Vienna Institute of Demography and reported by the news service N1 since 1990 the population has shrunk by 13 percent.

The population of Western Europe keeps growing largely thanks to immigration, while Eastern Europe has been hit with serious population drain, a recently published analysis by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Vienna Institute of Demography showed.

The survey highlights the difference between populations across Europe from the period of 1990 to 2017. And it is clear from their findings that south-eastern Europe is struggling with a major demographic problem.

The country with the highest drop in population was Bosnia and Herzegovina which saw a massive 22 percent loss of citizens within the 17-year time period. And a large proportion of this loss can be put down to the war in the region, however more recently the situation hasn’t improved as people leave for financial reasons.

At the other end of the scale Ireland saw the largest growth in population, an incredible 36 percent, followed by Switzerland with 26 percent and Norway with 24 percent. But in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latvia, Moldavia, Bulgaria and Lithuania more than 20 percent of the population immigrated.