Demographic history of Croatia

• TOTAL = 3,430,270
• Croat = 2,481,000 (72.3%)
• Serbs = 633,000 (18.5%)
• Germans = 98,990 (2.9%)
• Hungarian = 69,540 (2%)
• Czech = 45,715 (1.3%)
• Slovene = 37,066 (1.1%)
• Jews = 20,000 (0.6%)
• Roma = 14,000 (0.4%)
• Italians = 6,169 (0.2%)
• Montenegrin = 2,000
• Albanian = 818

Yugoslavs is added as an option in 1948.

1948 census in Croatia

• TOTAL = 3,779,858
• Croat = 2,975,399 (78.7%)
• Serbs = 543,795 (14.38%)
• Italians = 76,093 (2%)
• Hungarian = 51,399 (1.4%)
• Slovene = 38,734 (1%)
• Czech = 28,991 (0.8%)
• Germans = 10,144 (0.3%)
• Montenegrin = 2,871
• Albanian = 635
• Roma = 405

Austrians is added as an option in 1953.

1953 census in Croatia

• TOTAL = 3,936,022
• Croat = 3,128,661 (79.5%)
• Serbs = 588,756 (15%)
• Hungarian = 47,725 (1.2%)
• Slovene = 43,482 (1.1%)
• Italians = 37,565 (1%)
• Czech = 25,967 (0.7%)
• Yugoslavs = 16,964 (0.4%)
• Germans = 11,248 (0.3%)
• Montenegrin = 5,175 (0.1%)
• Roma = 1,261
• Albanian = 1,001
• Austrians = 749
• Jews = 413

1961 census in Croatia

• TOTAL = 4,159,696
• Croat = 3,339,890 (80.3%)
• Serbs = 624,991 (15%)
• Hungarian = 42,347 (1%)
• Slovene = 39,103 (0.9%)
• Czech = 23,391 (0.6%)
• Italians = 21,103 (0.5%)
• Yugoslavs = 15,560 (0.4%)
• Montenegrin = 7,465 (0.2%)
• Germans = 4,214 (0.1%)
• Albanian = 2,126 (0.1%)
• Austrians = 510
• Jews = 406
• Roma = 313

1971 census in Croatia

• TOTAL = 4,426,221
• Croat = 3,513,647 (79.4%)
• Serb = 626,789 (14.2%)
• Yugoslavs = 84,118 (1.9%)
• Hungarian = 35,488 (0.8%)
• Slovene = 32,497 (0.7%)
• Czech = 19,001 (0.4%)
• Italians = 17,433 (0.4%)
• Montenegrin = 9,706 (0.2%)
• Albanian = 4,175 (0.1%)
• Jews = 2,845
• Germans = 2,719
• Roma = 1,257
• Austrians = 352

1981 census in Croatia

• TOTAL = 4,601,469
• Croat = 3,454,356 (75.1%)
• Serbs = 531,502 (11.6%)
• Yugoslavs = 379,057 (8.2%)
• Hungarian = 25,439 (0.6%)
• Czech = 15,061 (0.3%)
• Italians = 11,661 (0.3%)
• Montenegrin = 9,819 (0.2%)
• Albanian = 6,006 (0.1%)
• Roma = 3,858 (0.1%)
• Slovene = 2,536
• Germans = 2,175
• Jews = 316
• Austrians = 267

1991 census in Croatia

• TOTAL = 4,784,265
• Croat = 3,736,356 (78.1%)
• Serbs = 581,663 (12.2%)
• Yugoslavs = 106,041 (2.2%)
• Slovene = 22,376 (0.5%)
• Hungarian = 22,355 (0.5%)
• Italians = 21,303 (0.4%)
• Czech = 13,086 (0.3%)
• Albanian = 12,032 (0.3%)
• Montenegrin = 9,724 (0.2%)
• Roma = 6,695 (0.1%)
• Germans = 2,635 (0.1%)
• Austrians = 214
• Jews = 600

1995 estimate

• TOTAL = 4,666,000

1998 estimate

• TOTAL = 4,495,000

1999 estimate

• TOTAL = 4,481,000

Bosniak added as an option in 2001.

2001 census in Croata

• TOTAL = 4,437,460
• Croat = 3,977,171 (89.6%)
• Serb = 201,631 (4.5%)
• Bosniak = 20,755 (0.5%)
• Muslim = 19,677 (0.4%)
• Italians = 19,636 (0.4%)
• Hungarian = 16,595 (0.4%)
• Albanian = 15,082 (0.3%)
• Slovene = 13,173 (0.3%)
• Czech = 10,510 (0.2%)
• Roma = 9,465 (0.2%)
• Montenegrin = 4,926 (0.1%)
• Slovaks = 4,712 (0.1%)
• Macedonians = 4,270 (0.1%)
• Germans = 2,902 (0.1%)
• Rusyns = 2,337 (0.1%)
• Ukrainians = 1,977
• Russians = 906
• Jews = 576
• Poles = 567
• Romanians = 475
• Bulgarians = 331
• Turks = 300
• Austrians = 247
• Yugoslavs = 176
• Vlachs = 12
• others = 2,048(0.09%)
• unspecified = 89,130(2.01%)
• regional affiliation = 9,302(0.21)
• unknown = 17,975(0.41%)

2004 estimate

• TOTAL = 4,496,869

2005 estimate

• TOTAL = 4,495,904

2008 estimate

• TOTAL = 4,453,500