Croatia's population falls by almost 10 pct in decade: census-Xinhua

Croatia's population falls by almost 10 pct in decade: census

Source: Xinhua| 2022-09-22 23:40:45|Editor: huaxia

ZAGREB, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Croatia's population has decreased by 413,056 persons or 9.64 percent over the past decade, the final results of the country's 2021 census showed on Thursday.

According to the Croatian Bureau of Statistics, in 2021 the country's population was 3,871,833. Of them, 1,865,129 were men and 2,006,704 women.

The share of Croats in the country was 91.63 percent, followed by Serbs (3.2 percent) and Bosnians (0.62 percent).

A population decline has been marked in all Croatian counties, but the biggest exodus of the population was recorded in eastern Croatia, in Vukovar-Srijem County (20.3 percent).

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