Babies on Map births by country, 0 CE – 2026

Europe · Southern Europe

How many babies are born in Croatia?

30.6 thousand babies born in Croatia in 2026 — 0.02% of all births worldwide, and the 145th largest of any country. UN projection

Plus or minus about 6%. These years have not happened yet or have not been counted yet. They are the medium variant of the UN's projection, not a record of births that took place.

Births in Croatia through history

100K 1 CE1000150018002026
Estimated annual births in Croatia, 0 CE to 2026, on a logarithmic scale. The shaded band on the left marks the years where births are modelled rather than recorded. The marker sits on 2026.
Every figure refers to the area inside Croatia's present-day borders. Before 1800 the state did not exist in its current form — see how borders are handled.
Year Estimated births Population Per 1,000 Evidence
1 CE ~14K ~360K 40.1 Modelled estimate
1000 ~17K ~420K 40.4 Modelled estimate
1500 ~22K ~540K 41.0 Modelled estimate
1800 ~49.4K ~1.23M 40.2 Historical reconstruction
1900 ~101K ~2.49M 40.7 Historical reconstruction
1950 97.1K 3.86M 25.1 UN estimate
2000 40.9K 4.33M 9.5 UN estimate
2024 31.4K 3.88M 8.1 UN projection
2026 30.6K 3.82M 8.0 UN projection

What the numbers show

Annual births in Croatia are at their highest in the whole run of estimates in 1919, at about ~118K. That is roughly 2.1 times the estimated ~14.4K births a year in 1 CE.

At 1.47 children per woman, fertility in Croatia is below the level of about 2.1 that would hold a population steady over the long run without migration.

See Croatia on the map

Where these numbers come from

2026 figures are the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium variant. Earlier years come from the UN's estimates (1950 onward), Gapminder's reconstructions (1800–1949) and a model applied to HYDE population estimates (before 1800). The full chain is set out in the methodology, and every source is listed on the sources page.