| People | Croatia |
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Population:
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4,483,804 (July 2011 est.) |
Population density:
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81 people per sq km land area |
Urbanization:
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urban population: 58% of total population (2010)
rate of urbanization: 0.4% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.) |
Major cities - population:
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ZAGREB (capital) 685,000 (2009) |
Age structure:
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0-14 years: 15.1% (male 346,553/female 328,677)
15-64 years: 68.1% (male 1,516,884/female 1,536,065)
65 years and over: 16.9% (male 296,268/female 459,357) (2011 est.) |
Median age:
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total: 41.4 years
male: 39.5 years
female: 43.3 years (2011 est.) |
Population growth rate:
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-0.076% (2011 est.) |
Birth rate:
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9.6 births/1,000 population (2011 est.) |
Death rate:
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11.91 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.) |
Net migration rate:
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1.55 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2011 est.) |
Sex ratio:
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at birth: 1.055 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.64 male(s)/female
total population: 0.93 male(s)/female (2011 est.) |
Maternal mortality rate:
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14 deaths/100,000 live births (2008) |
Infant mortality rate:
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total: 6.16 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 6.24 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 6.08 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.) |
Life expectancy at birth:
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total population: 75.79 years
male: 72.17 years
female: 79.6 years (2011 est.) |
Total fertility rate:
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1.43 children born/woman (2011 est.) |
Health expenditures:
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7.8% of GDP (2009) |
Physicians density:
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2.59 physicians/1,000 population (2007) |
Hospital bed density:
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5.49 beds/1,000 population (2007) |
Drinking water source:
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improved:
urban: 100% of population
rural: 97% of population
total: 99% of population
unimproved:
urban: 0% of population
rural: 3% of population
total: 1% of population (2008) |
Sanitation facility access:
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improved:
urban: 99% of population
rural: 98% of population
total: 99% of population
unimproved:
urban: 1% of population
rural: 2% of population
total: 1% of population (2008) |
Major infectious diseases:
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degree of risk: intermediate
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea
vectorborne diseases: tickborne encephalitis
note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2009) |
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
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less than 0.1% (2009 est.) |
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
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fewer than 1,000 (2009 est.) |
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
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fewer than 100 (2009 est.) |
Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
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void |
Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
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22.3% (2003) |
Nationality:
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noun: Croat(s), Croatian(s)
adjective: Croatian |
Ethnic groups:
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Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, other 5.9% (including Bosniak, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, and Roma) (2001 census) |
Religions:
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Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, other Christian 0.4%, Muslim 1.3%, other and unspecified 0.9%, none 5.2% (2001 census) |
Languages:
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Croatian (official) 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German) 2.9% (2001 census) |
Literacy:
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definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 98.1%
male: 99.3%
female: 97.1% (2001 census) |
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
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total: 14 years
male: 13 years
female: 14 years (2008) |
Education expenditures - percent of GDP:
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4.6% of GDP (2009) |
People - note:
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void |
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