Demographics

1. Demographics

2. Definition • Demographics or demographic data are the characteristics of a human population. These types of data are used widely in sociology, public policy, and marketing. • Commonly used demographics include gender, race, age, income, disabilities, mobility (in terms of travel time to work or number of vehicles available), educational attainment, home ownership, employment status, and even location.

3. Demographic trends • Demographic trends describe the changes in demographics in a population over time (for example, the average age of a population may increase or decrease over time). Both distributions and trends of values within a demographic variable are of interest.

4. Census • Official counting of the population • Conducted every ten years

5. Demographics in Croatia • The last Census of Population, Households and Dwellings was carried out in 2011 and it included the following census units: persons, households, dwellings and other inhabitated living quarter • According to 2010 estimate, Croatia had 4,483,804 inhabitants

6. Population In 2001 Croatia had 4,784,265 inhabitants According to 2010 estimate, Croatia had 4,483,804 inhabitants Croatia belongs to medium populated European countries

7. Age structure • 0-14 years: 15.6% (male 358,360/female 340,098) • 15-64 years: 67.5% (male 1,506,364/female 1,522,789) • 65 years and over: 17% (male 295,960/female 465,838) (2010 est.) • The population has grown older – the percentage of the young population decreases, while the percentage of the elderly population increases

8. Median age • total: 41.4 years male: 39.5 years female: 43.3 years (2011 est.)

9. Population growth rate • -0.076% (2011 est.) – negative rate • Birth rate 9.6 births/1,000 population • Death rate 11.91 deaths/1,000 population

10. Urbanization • urban population: 58% of total population • rate of urbanization: 0.4% annual rate of change (2005-10 est.) • The most populated area is the Central area (Zagreb) • The least populated areas: the Mountains (Lika) and islands

11. Sex ratio • 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 (2010 est.)– larger female share

12. Life expectancy at birth • Life expectancy is expected life duration at birth • total population: 75.79 years • male: 71.95 years (2010 est) v. 72.17 (2011 est) • female: 79.4 years (2010 est.)v. 79.6 (2011 est) • Think: Why do women live longer?

13. Fertility rate • 1.43 children born/woman • The population continues growing old because of a decrease in the natality rate and an increase in the mortality rate

14. Ethnic groups • Croat 89.6% • Serb 4.5% • other 5.9% (including Bosnian, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, and Roma)

15. 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)

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

17. Literacy • definition: age 15 and over can read and write • total population: 98.1% • male: 99.3% • female: 97.1% • Education expenditures 3.9% of GDP (2004)v. 4.6% in 2010

18. Demographic problems • Ageing of the population • Density • Emigration of young and educated people (‘brain drain’)

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