Ethnic Groups
Croatia is inhabited mostly by Croats (89.6%), while minority groups include Serbs (4.5%), Bosniaks, Hungarians, Italians, Albanians, Slovenes, Germans, Czechs, Romani people and others (5.9%). The Constitution of the Republic of Croatia specifies 22 minorities explicitly. Those are Serbs, Czechs, Slovaks, Italians, Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Austrians, Ukrainians, Ruthenians, Bosniaks, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Russians, Bulgarians, Poles, Romani, Rumanians, Turks, Vlachs and Albanians.
It should also be noted here that Croatian borders have changed during history.
| Ethnic group |
census 1948 | census 1953 | census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 2001 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Croats | 2,975,399 | 79.2 | 3,117,513 | 79.6 | 3,339,841 | 80.3 | 3,513,647 | 79.4 | 3,454,661 | 75.1 | 3,736,356 | 78.1 | 3,977,171 | 89.6 |
| Serbs | 543,795 | 14.5 | 588,411 | 15.0 | 624,985 | 15.0 | 626,789 | 14.2 | 531,502 | 11.6 | 581,663 | 12.2 | 201,631 | 4.5 |
| Yugoslavs | 15,559 | 0.4 | 84,118 | 1.9 | 379,057 | 8.2 | 106,041 | 2.2 | 176 | 0.0 | ||||
| Muslims | 1,077 | 0.0 | 16,185 | 0.4 | 3,113 | 0.1 | 18,457 | 0.4 | 23,740 | 0.5 | - | 19,677 | 0.4 | |
| Bosniaks | 20,755 | 0.5 | ||||||||||||
| Italians | 76,093 | 2.0 | 33,316 | 0.9 | 21,103 | 0.5 | 17,433 | 0.4 | 11,661 | 0.3 | 21,303 | 0.4 | 19,636 | 0.4 |
| Hungarians | 51,399 | 1.4 | 47,711 | 1.2 | 42,347 | 1.0 | 35,488 | 0.8 | 25,439 | 0.6 | 22,355 | 0.5 | 16,595 | 0.4 |
| Albanians | 635 | 0.0 | 1,001 | 0.0 | 2,126 | 0.1 | 4,175 | 0.1 | 6,006 | 0.1 | 12,032 | 0.3 | 15,082 | 0.3 |
| Slovenes | 38,734 | 1.0 | 43,010 | 1.1 | 39,101 | 0.9 | 32,497 | 0.7 | 25,136 | 0.5 | 22,376 | 0.5 | 13,173 | 0.3 |
| Czechs | 28,991 | 0.8 | 25,954 | 0.7 | 23,391 | 0.6 | 19,001 | 0.4 | 15,061 | 0.3 | 13,086 | 0.3 | 10,510 | 0.2 |
| Roma | 405 | 0.0 | 1,261 | 0.0 | 313 | 0.0 | 1,257 | 0.0 | 3,858 | 0.1 | 6,695 | 0.1 | 9,463 | 0.2 |
| Montenegrins | 2,871 | 0.1 | 5,128 | 0.1 | 7,465 | 0.2 | 9,706 | 0.2 | 9,818 | 0.2 | 9,724 | 0.2 | 4,926 | 0.1 |
| Macedonians | 1,387 | 0.0 | 2,385 | 0.1 | 4,381 | 0.1 | 5,625 | 0.1 | 5,362 | 0.1 | 6,280 | 0.1 | 4,270 | 0.1 |
| Others/undeclared | 36,021 | 1.0 | 36,942 | 0.9 | 35,971 | 0.9 | 58,028 | 1.3 | 110,168 | 2.4 | 246,354 | 5.1 | 124,3952 | 2.8 |
| Total | 3,756,807 | 3,918,817 | 4,159,696 | 4,426,221 | 4,601,469 | 4,784,265 | 4,437,460 | |||||||
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