A consolidated migration profile for Croatia:
who arrives, who leaves, how many people are hosted or displaced, and the national context behind those numbers.
Every figure below is a reported value from an official source — nothing is estimated or filled in.
CapitalZagreb
RegionEurope
Subregion—
Population3,876,200
Refugees hosted29,748People protected here
Refugees from here—Fled abroad
Migrants living here527,831Foreign-born stock
Net migration-3,481Net outflow
Asylum-seekers434Awaiting a decision
Reporting year2025Most recent data
Latest figures · 2025
Key migration numbers
The headline counts for the most recent reporting year. Refugees hosted are people this country protects; asylum-seekers are still awaiting a decision; applications are new asylum claims lodged during the year.
2025Reporting year
29,748Refugees hosted
434Asylum-seekers
1,229Applications (year)
Migration balance
Incoming vs outgoing
Annual estimates
Net migration is arrivals minus departures over the year. Positive means more people moved in than out. Migrant stock is the total foreign-born people living here now.
Net migration (year)-3,481Net outflow
Migrants living here527,831Migrant stock
Missing / dead migrants
No data available
IOM Missing Migrants Project
Historical series
Statistics
Recorded migrant, refugee and asylum populations over time. Each line is one category; gaps mean a year the source did not report a figure (the line bridges the gap rather than dropping to zero).
Population profile
Sex, age, religion & more
How the population breaks down across reported dimensions, grouped by the year each figure was reported (most recent first). Bars show each group’s share of the total; where only headcounts were published, the raw number is shown instead.
Religion
Religious make-up over time
National shares
Share of the population by faith across the recorded years. Each line is a stored national value; nothing is estimated.
Displaced population by age cohort for the most recent reported year. Age is summed across sexes in the source data, so this is a single series per cohort — not a male/female split.
Displaced population by sex over the reported years, stacked so the top line reads as the total.
Sex
Female40.9%
Male23.4%
Unknown35.7%
Age
18-590.8%
5-110.1%
Sex
Female60.2%
Male36.2%
Unknown3.6%
Age
18-590.0%
Sex
Female62.3%
Male37.7%
Age
0-46.7%
12-179.0%
18-5953.9%
5-1112.0%
60+0.7%
Sex
Female62.9%
Male37.1%
Age
0-46.9%
12-179.5%
18-5950.3%
5-1112.9%
60+0.8%
Sex
Female45.2%
Male54.8%
Age
0-41.4%
12-172.6%
18-5962.0%
5-113.1%
60+16.3%
Sex
Female44.3%
Male55.6%
Age
0-41.0%
12-172.3%
18-5970.0%
5-112.4%
60+19.6%
Sex
Female44.7%
Male55.3%
Age
0-41.4%
12-172.9%
18-5972.3%
5-113.6%
60+19.8%
Sex
Female3.5%
Male8.0%
Unknown88.5%
Age
0-40.7%
12-171.6%
18-597.9%
5-111.3%
Sex
Female14.6%
Male17.0%
Unknown68.4%
Age
0-40.4%
12-170.7%
18-595.6%
5-110.8%
Sex
Female9.2%
Male10.8%
Unknown80.0%
Age
0-40.3%
12-170.2%
18-593.3%
5-110.6%
Sex
Female51.0%
Male47.7%
Unknown1.3%
Age
0-40.0%
12-170.3%
18-590.7%
5-110.1%
Sex
Female2.4%
Male2.7%
Unknown94.9%
Age
0-40.0%
12-170.2%
18-590.8%
5-110.1%
Sex
Female44.0%
Male41.5%
Unknown14.5%
Age
0-40.0%
12-170.1%
18-591.2%
5-110.1%
Sex
Female45.0%
Male42.6%
Unknown12.4%
Age
0-40.1%
12-170.4%
18-592.8%
5-110.2%
60+0.8%
Sex
Female47.3%
Male44.0%
Unknown8.7%
Age
0-40.1%
12-170.3%
18-592.4%
5-110.2%
60+1.3%
Sex
Female48.1%
Male44.8%
Unknown7.1%
Age
0-40.2%
12-170.9%
18-598.0%
5-110.4%
60+4.1%
Sex
Female51.6%
Male47.3%
Unknown1.1%
Age
0-40.3%
12-171.0%
18-598.5%
5-110.5%
60+4.4%
Sex
Female52.4%
Male46.5%
Unknown1.1%
Age
0-40.3%
12-171.1%
18-599.5%
5-110.6%
60+4.6%
Sex
Female52.5%
Male47.2%
Age
0-41.3%
12-1715.9%
18-5942.7%
5-1114.0%
60+25.8%
Sex
Female51.6%
Male48.1%
Age
0-41.8%
12-1710.8%
18-5953.4%
5-119.2%
60+24.6%
Sex
Female52.6%
Male47.3%
Age
0-44.2%
12-177.9%
18-5957.0%
5-119.2%
60+21.5%
Sex
Female51.7%
Male48.1%
Age
0-42.9%
12-177.8%
18-5960.1%
5-119.1%
60+20.0%
Sex
Female51.6%
Male46.5%
Unknown1.9%
Age
0-45.4%
12-179.2%
18-5949.6%
5-1110.8%
60+23.2%
Sex
Female46.6%
Male40.7%
Unknown12.7%
Age
0-44.5%
12-177.5%
18-5944.6%
5-118.8%
60+21.8%
Sex
Female37.2%
Male29.6%
Unknown33.2%
Age
0-41.2%
12-175.3%
18-5935.3%
5-116.2%
60+17.3%
Country context
National indicators
Economy
GDP (current US$)105,060,182,186.27 USD2025GDP per capita (current US$)27,103.91 USD2025Unemployment (% of labour force)5.00 %2025Personal remittances received (US$)6,704,606,429.83 USD2024Personal remittances received (% of GDP)7.21 %2024
Returned refugees3,000.00 people2025Resettlement arrivals98.00 people2019Naturalisations5.00 people2020Returned IDPs67.00 people2011
Other
Life expectancy at birth, total (years)78.93 years2024Current health expenditure (% of GDP)7.15 %2023Gini index30.10 2023Poverty headcount ratio at $2.15 a day (% of population)0.30 %2023Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group)100.52 %2023
Context
Migration & quality of life
These charts place migration next to quality-of-life indicators over time. Correlation is not causation — a relationship here does not prove migration caused the change, or that a change caused the migration.
Economy
Gross domestic product
World Bank
GDP (current US$)
$105.06B
Reported 2025
GDP per capita (current US$)
$27,104
Reported 2025
Migrant stock as a share of the population (left axis, in percent) shown against life expectancy (right axis, in years) over the years.
Each point is one year: migrant share of population (x, in percent) versus life expectancy (y, in years).
Public safety
Recorded crime
Not migrant offending
National crime figures for context only — they describe the whole resident population and are not a measure of migrant offending.
Recorded crime by type
rate / 100k where available
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.45
Homicide
0.67
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.69
Homicide
0.79
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.69
Homicide
0.84
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.93
Homicide
1.01
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.68
Homicide
0.83
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.38
Homicide
0.60
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.85
Homicide
1.13
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.93
Homicide
1.06
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.69
Homicide
0.88
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.78
Homicide
0.85
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.95
Homicide
1.08
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.81
Homicide
1.20
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.95
Homicide
1.14
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.43
Homicide
1.44
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.07
Homicide
1.14
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.07
Homicide
1.65
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.07
Homicide
1.44
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.43
Homicide
1.71
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.20
Homicide
1.58
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.65
Homicide
1.93
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.99
Homicide
1.60
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.41
Homicide
1.70
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.25
Homicide
1.88
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.43
Homicide
2.33
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.26
Homicide
2.53
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.49
Homicide
2.36
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.34
Homicide
2.62
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.62
Homicide
2.67
Crime
Rate / 100k
826.00
Homicide
3.59
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.27
Homicide
3.06
Crime
Rate / 100k
345.00
Homicide
4.61
Crime
Rate / 100k
142.00
Homicide
8.09
Crime
Rate / 100k
4.95
Homicide
9.06
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.72
Homicide
2.83
Public expenditure
Expenses
Migration-related public spending only — Official Development Assistance received and provided (which, for donor countries, includes in-donor refugee costs), in US dollars, stacked so the top line reads as the combined total for each year.
Year
Amount (USD)
Category
2010
$150,470,001
ODA received
2009
$168,830,002
ODA received
2008
$241,059,998
ODA received
2007
$162,910,004
ODA received
2006
$196,509,995
ODA received
2005
$123,459,999
ODA received
2004
$119,660,004
ODA received
2003
$120,400,002
ODA received
2002
$130,600,006
ODA received
2001
$112,129,997
ODA received
2000
$65,510,002
ODA received
1999
$48,470,001
ODA received
1998
$39,380,001
ODA received
1997
$40,360,001
ODA received
1996
$133,309,998
ODA received
1995
$53,279,999
ODA received
1994
$109,660,004
ODA received
1992
$10,000
ODA received
Sources & notes
Figures are consolidated from the UNHCR Refugee Data Finder and the World Bank / UNODC. Only reported values are shown — blanks mean a source did not publish a figure, never a fabricated estimate. Statistics describe recorded populations and movements and should not be read as causal relationships.
