Croatia People:
Population:
4,495,904 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 16.4% (male:378,615; female:359,231)
15-64 years: 67% (male:1,497,355; female:1,514,993)
65 years and over: 16.6% (male:283,460; female:462,250) (2005)
Median age:
total: 39.97 years
male: 38.01 years
female: 41.76 years (2005)
Population growth rate:
-0.02% (2005 est.)
Birth rate:
9.57 births
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate:
11.38 deaths
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Net migration rate:
1.58 migrant(s)
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female (2005)
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female (2005)
15-64 years: 0.99 male(s)/female (2005)
65 years and over: 0.61 male(s)/female (2005)
total population: 0.92 male(s)/female (2005)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 6.84 deaths
/
1,000 live births (2005 est.)
male: 6.79 deaths
/
1,000 live births
female: 6.88 deaths
/
1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
total: 74.45 years (2005 est.)
male: 70.79 years
female: 78.31 years
Total fertility rate:
1.39 children born/woman (2005 est.)
HIV/AIDS — adult prevalence rate:
less than 0.1% (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS — people living with HIV/AIDS:
200 (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS — deaths:
less than 10 (2001 est.)
Nationality:
noun: Croat(s), Croatian(s)
adjective: Croatian
Ethnic groups:
Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, others 5.9% (including Bosniak, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, and Roma) (2001)
Religions:
Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, other Christian 0.4%, Muslim 1.3%, other and unspecified 0.9%, none 5.2% (2001)
Languages:
Croatian 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German) 2.9% (2001)
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 98.5%
male: 99.4%
female: 97.8% (2003)
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