Kretanje broja rezidencijalnoga (boravećeg) stanovništva Hrvatske u 20. stoljeću
Residential Population Trends in 20th Century Croatia

Summary/Abstract: In the article in which the total population of Croatia from 1900 to 2001 is being analysed, "the total number of inhabitants" implies the "real residential population" i. e. the residential population of Croatia. A fact worth mentioning is that in the 18th century the number of inhabitants on Croatia's present territory grew two and a half times (in 1700 there were 644,500, while in 1800 1,595,143 inhabitants), and in the 19th century it was doubled (index 198.2), while between 1900 and 2001 the growth of Croatia's residential population amounted to 33% (or 32.86%). Apart from the traditionally emigré Ireland, out of 45 European countries, members of the Council of Europe, the author does not know of another country (not including those "miniature" ones in square footage and population number) which has had such a mild growth of population as Croatia in the 20th century! Even Italy and Denmark, and Sweden, Slovenia, and France, and... many others had at least a 50 percent increase of the total residential population between 1900 and 2000! In addition, as far as the consequences are concerned, the period between the two censuses from 1961 to 1971 is also considered very important because not more than ten thousand inhabitants out of a natural growth of several thousand remained in Croatia.

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