Croatia 
Facts
Population: 4,493,312 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 16% (male 368,639/female 349,703)
15-64 years: 67.1% (male 1,499,354/female 1,515,932)
65 years and over: 16.9% (male 292,526/female 467,158) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: -0.035% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 9.63 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 11.57 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 1.58 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.054 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.989 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.626 male(s)/female
total population: 0.926 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 6.6 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 6.6 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 6.6 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 74.9 years
male: 71.26 years
female: 78.75 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.41 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: less than 0.1% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 200 (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 10 (2001 est.).
Nationality: noun: Croat(s), Croatian(s)
adjective: Croatian.
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).
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 98.1%
male: 99.3%
female: 97.1% (2001 census).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $60.26 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 4.6% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $13,400 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 6.8%
industry: 30.9%
services: 62.3% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 1.72 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 2.7%
industry: 32.8%
services: 64.5% (2004).
Population below poverty line: 11% (2003).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3.4%
highest 10%: 24.5% (2003 est.).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.4% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 17.2% official rate; labor force surveys indicate unemployment around 14% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $17.78 billion
expenditures: $19.06 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: wheat, corn, sugar beets, sunflower seed, barley, alfalfa, clover, olives, citrus, grapes, soybeans, potatoes; livestock, dairy products.
Industries: chemicals and plastics, machine tools, fabricated metal, electronics, pig iron and rolled steel products, aluminum, paper, wood products, construction materials, textiles, shipbuilding, petroleum and petroleum refining, food and beverages, tourism.
Industrial production growth rate: 5% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 12.95 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 16.53 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 600 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 5.086 billion kWh (2004).
Exports: $11.17 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: transport equipment, textiles, chemicals, foodstuffs, fuels.
Exports - partners: Italy 21.8%, Bosnia and Herzegovina 14.7%, Germany 10.7%, Slovenia 8.1%, Austria 7.3% (2005).
Imports: $21.79 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery, transport and electrical equipment; chemicals, fuels and lubricants; foodstuffs.
Imports - partners: Italy 15.9%, Germany 14.9%, Russia 9.1%, Slovenia 6.8%, Austria 5.8%, China 4.7%, France 4.2% (2005).
Debt - external: $33.09 billion (30 June 2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $166.5 million (2002).
Currency (code): kuna (HRK).
Exchange rates: kuna per US dollar - 5.8625 (2006), 5.9473 (2005), 6.0358 (2004), 6.7035 (2003), 7.8687 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
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(Business daily), Zagreb
http://www.dnevnik.com.hr/
(Independent weekly), Split
http://www.feral.hr
(Independent, Regional daily), Pula
http://www.glasistre.hr/
(Independent weekly), Zagreb
http://www.globus.com.hr/
Jutarnji list
(Independent), Zagreb
(Independent weekly), Zagreb
http://www.nacional.hr
(Independent daily), Rijeka
http://www.novilist.hr
Croatia in the News
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The European Commission (EC) annual reports on would-be members brought a mixture of hope and bitterness in the Balkans.
Croatia and Serbia-Montenegro have moved toward reconciliation as the countries’ respective presidents, Stipe Mesic and Svetozar Marovic, expressed remorse during a meeting in Belgrade. Katarina Subasic reports from Belgrade.
Angered by French President Jacques Chirac, Eastern European countries are cementing their ties with the United States, Franko Egro writes in Shekulli
Croatia’s 2001 census indicates a sharp drop in the Serb population, prompting commentators across the political spectrum to speculate about the cause of the decline. Some blame the nationalist designs of Serbs themselves, while others fault Croat chauvinism.
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