Demographic history of Croatia

=1931 census in 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

"Population changes between 1991and 1995 is seen by some as ethnic cleansing."

1995 census in Croatia

*TOTAL = 4,666,000
*Croat = 89.6%
*Serbs = 4.5%

1998 census in Croatia

*TOTAL = 4,495,000

1999 census in Croatia

*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 census in Croatia

*TOTAL = 4,496,869

2005 census in Croatia

*TOTAL = 4,495,904

2008 census in Croatia

*TOTAL = 4,453,500