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Croats

Хорваты · Q167420

language area per Glottologcensus counts
407,311
United States, census 2023 (ancestry (self-reported))
89,053
sum of censuses in 9 countries, 2001-2022
Indo-European
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in United States: 407,311 people in the 2023 census.

Official figures exist for 9 countries; together they add up to 89,053. This is not an estimate of the world total: the censuses were held in different years (2001-2022) and define belonging differently, and countries without such data are not counted.

In Russia's 2020 census (reference date 1 October 2021), 177 people identified with the nationality "Хорваты" (Croats)1. That is less than 0.01% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Rosstat also assigns 1 other self-designation to this nationality (listed in Russian in the source table).

Main language: Croatian Standard. Glottolog classifies it in the Indo-European family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

United States2023 · ancestry (self-reported) · «Croatian» · [2]
407,311
Serbia2022 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Croatian» · [3]
39,107
Slovenia2002 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Croatian» · [4]
35,642
Montenegro2011 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Croatian» · [5]
6,021
Romania2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Croatian» · [6]
4,842
North Macedonia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Croatian» · [7]
2,145
Slovakia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Croatian» · [8]
967
Russia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Хорваты» · [1]
177
Ukraine2001 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Croatian» · [9]
126
Kazakhstan2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Croatian» · [10]
26
Croatia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Hrvati» · [11]
91.63%
Sum across 9 countries89,053

In detail: Russia, 2021 census

Sex, urban and rural, Russian regions

Sex

Men 140 · 79.1%Women 37 · 20.9%

Urban and rural

Urban 165 · 93.2%Rural 12 · 6.8%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Moscow (city)
56
Moscow Oblast
26
Krasnodar Krai
14
Saint Petersburg (city)
13
Kemerovo Oblast - Kuzbass
7
Tyumen Oblast (excl. autonomous okrugs)
4
Chelyabinsk Oblast
4
Leningrad Oblast
3
Volgograd Oblast
3
Rostov Oblast
3

Source [1]: Rosstat, 2020 census, vol. 5, table 1

Languages and their lineage

Croatian Standard

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Balto-Slavicbalt1263
  4. Slavicslav1255
  5. South Slavicsout3147
  6. Western South Slavicwest2804
  7. Serbian-Croatian-Bosniansout1528
  8. Shtokavskishto1241
  9. New Shtokaviannews1236
  10. Eastern Herzegovinian Shtokavianeast2821
  11. Croatian Standardcroa1245

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

PakistanisRussiansMarathiGermansSpaniardsMexicansUkrainiansEnglishIrishAmericansItaliansRomaniansNepali (Khas-Arya)DutchBelarusiansTajiksCzechsScotsSerbsBulgariansSlovaksArmeniansCubansLithuanians

Sources

  1. Rosstat. National composition of the population of the Russian Federation. Results of the 2020 All-Russian Population Census (reference date 1 October 2021), vol. 5, table 1. Tom5_tab1_VPN-2020.xlsx (archived copy)
  2. U.S. Census Bureau. ACS 2023 1-year, Table B04006 (variable B04006_029E, label Estimate!!Total:!!Croatian). https://data.census.gov/api/access/data/table?id=ACSDT1Y2023.B04006&g=010XX00US
  3. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Serbia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  4. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Slovenia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  5. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Montenegro, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  6. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Romania, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  7. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. North Macedonia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  8. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Slovakia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  9. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Ukraine, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  10. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Kazakhstan, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  11. Državni zavod za statistiku (DZS). Objavljeni konačni rezultati Popisa 2021. (22.09.2022); Etno-kulturalna obilježja (presentation, 7 Oct 2022). https://dzs.gov.hr/vijesti/objavljeni-konacni-rezultati-popisa-2021/1270
  12. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)