On 1 January 2024, foreign citizens and stateless people made up 3.0%^* of the people living in Croatia, against 9.6%^* across the EU — the 22nd highest share of the 27 EU states that publish it.

In 2024, 70,391 people moved to Croatia and 38,997 left: a difference of 31,394^*, more arrivals than departures.

Citizens and foreigners

Residents of Croatia on 1 January 2024, by the citizenship they hold. Every line is a separate figure Eurostat publishes; the site adds none of them together.

Residents of Croatia by citizenship, 1 January 2024
Citizenship	People	Share of residents
All residents	3,861,967	—
Foreign citizens and stateless peopleOne group Eurostat publishes, shown beside the lines below	115,174	3.0%^*
Citizens of Croatia	3,746,587	97.0%^*
Citizens of other EU countries	19,072	0.5%^*
Citizens of countries outside the EU	95,544	2.5%^*
Stateless people	558	0.01%^*
Citizenship not stated	206	0.01%^*

Against the other EU states

Foreign citizens and stateless people as a share of residents on 1 January 2024, for the states ranked next to Croatia. Only states that publish both figures that year are ranked.

Foreign-citizen share, Croatia and the states ranked next to it, 1 January 2024
Rank	Country	Foreign citizens and stateless people, share of residents
20	Finland	6.6%^*
21	Lithuania	4.7%^*
22	Croatia	3.0%^*
23	Hungary	2.6%^*
24	Bulgaria	1.8%^*
—	European Union (27, from 2020) (reference, not ranked)	9.6%^*

Largest foreign citizenships

Eurostat's most recent tables hold no breakdown of Croatia's residents by individual citizenship, so no list of the largest groups is shown. The gap is left as a gap: nothing is estimated, and nothing is borrowed from another country or another year.

Country of birth

Residents of Croatia by where they were born, on 1 January 2025. This is a different question from citizenship: someone born abroad may hold Croatia's citizenship, and someone born in Croatia may not.

Residents of Croatia by country of birth, 1 January 2025
Country of birth	People	Share of residents
All residents	3,874,350	—
Born in Croatia	3,327,550	85.9%^*
Born in another country	546,622	14.1%^*
Born in another EU country	66,952	1.7%^*
Born outside the EU	479,670	12.4%^*
Country of birth not stated	178	<0.01%^*

Arrivals and departures

People who moved to or left Croatia during each calendar year, as reported to Eurostat. Arrivals and departures are separate published figures; the difference is the site's subtraction of the two for the same year.

Arrivals, departures and their difference, Croatia, 2024 and earlier years
Year	Arrived	Left	Arrived minus left
2024	70,391	38,997	31,394^*
2023	69,396	39,218	30,178^*
2022	57,972	46,287	11,685^*
2021	35,912	40,424	-4,512^*
2020	33,414	34,046	-632^*
2019	37,726	40,148	-2,422^*

By citizenship, 2024

Arrivals and departures by the citizenship of the person moving. Each line is a separate published figure; none is added to another.

Arrivals and departures by citizenship, Croatia, 2024
Citizenship	Arrived	Left
Citizens of Croatia	13,290	20,147
Citizens of other EU countries	4,819	362
Citizens of countries outside the EU	52,274	18,488
Stateless people	0	0
Citizenship not stated	8	0

How to read these figures

Citizenship is the legal bond between a person and a state. Country of birth is where a person was born. They are different facts and different tables, and neither records ethnicity, origin or descent.
Residents counted at 1 January are a stock; arrivals and departures are events during a calendar year. A flow is never a change in a stock, and the two are not divided by each other here.
Eurostat takes each country’s own statistics. Countries differ in who counts as an arrival or a resident, so comparisons between countries are approximate.

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Modification notice and disclaimer

The counts on this page are published by Eurostat (Statistical Office of the European Union) and are reproduced unchanged. Humanity Observatory has additionally derived the following from them:

A share of residents, computed by dividing one published count by another from the same table, country and date (for example foreign citizens by all residents).
A country's rank among the EU states for its foreign-citizen share, computed by sorting the published figures of the states that publish both counts for the year.
The difference between published immigration and published emigration for the same country and year (arrivals minus departures). It is a subtraction of two published figures, not a net-migration figure published by Eurostat.
The ten largest individual citizenships, selected by sorting the published figures for the latest year in which most countries are published.

Source: Eurostat. Reuse terms.

^* Calculated by Humanity Observatory from published figures.

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