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Demography

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 est.)

Median age:

total: 39.97 years

male: 38.01 years

female: 41.76 years (2005 est.)

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.)

Ethnic groups:

Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, other 5.9% (including Bosniak, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, and Roma) (2001 census)

Religions:

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:

Croatian 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated 2.9% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German) (2001 census)