People* Population of 4,437,460 inhabitants composed with the majority of Croats with national minorities such as Serbs, Hungarians, Slovenes, Italians, Bosnians, Czechs and others. Age structure 0-14 years: 17% (male 411 022; female 389 354) 15-64 years: 68% (male 1 591 716; female 1 592 485) 65 years and over: 5% (male 262 471; female 424 536) (July 1998 est. Population growth rate 0.13% (1998 est.) Birth rate10.45 births/1 000 population (1998 est.) Death rate 11.14 deaths/1 000 population (1998 est.) Net migration rate1.94 migrant(s)/1 000 population (1998 est.) Sex ratio at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 0.99 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.61 male(s)/female (1998 est.) Infant mortality 8 deaths/1000 live births (1998 est.) Life expectancy at birth total population: 73.75 years male: 70.43 years female: 77.28 years (1998 est.) Total fertility rate 1.54 children born/woman (1998 est.) Nationality noun: Croat(s) adjective: Croatian Ethnic groups Croat 80% Serb 10% Muslim 0.9% Hungarian 0.5% Slovenian 0.5% others 8.1% (1991 Religions Catholic 76.5% Orthodox 11.1% Slavic Muslim 1.2% Protestant 0.4% others and unknown 10.8% Languages Croatian 96% other 4% (including Italian Hungarian Czechoslovak and German) Literacy definition: age 15 and over can read and   write total population: 97% male: 99% female: 95% (1991 est.)