- Demographics of Zagreb
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Zagreb is the largest city in Croatia and the only one whose metropolitan area exceeds one million people. The official population of the city of Zagreb is 779,145 according to the 2001 census. According to the same census, there are 1,088,841 people in the Zagreb metropolitan area including the towns of Samobor, Velika Gorica and Zaprešić.
According to the local police register department, which bases its information on the number of the applicants who wish to register to vote in Zagreb, in 2005 the city had a population of 973,667.[1]
Below is the demographic data of Zagreb from the 2001 census.
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Ethnicities
Source: Croatian Central Bureau of Statistics, Census 2001[2][3]
Ethnicity Number Percentage Croats 716,344 91.94% Serbs 18,811 2.41% Bosniaks 6,204 0.80% Albanians 3,389 0.43% Slovenians 3,225 0.41% Roma 1,946 0.25% Macedonians 1,315 0.17% Montenegrins 1,313 0.17% Hungarians 841 0.11% Czechs 813 0.10% Jews 368 0.05% Ukrainians 333 0.04% Germans 288 0.04% Italians 277 0.04% Russians 250 0.03% Slovaks 171 0.02% Poles 133 0.02% Ruthenians 123 0.02% Bulgarians 110 0.01% Turks 65 0.01% Austrians 53 0.01% Romanians 37 0.00% Vlachs 1 0.00% Non committed 15,649 2.02% Other 1 4,764 0.61% Unknown 2,322 0.30% Total 779,145 100% 1 This mode includes, among others:
Ethnicity Number Percentage Muslims by nationality 4,030 0.52% Yugoslavs 36 0.00% Religions
Source: Croatian Central Bureau of Statistics, Census 2001[4]
Religion Number Percentage Roman Catholic 678,538 87.09% Islam 16,215 2.08% Orthodox Church 15,634 2.01% Jehovah's Witness 1,500 0.19% Greek Catholic 807 0.10% Evangelical Church[disambiguation needed 
]569 0.07% Adventist Church 459 0.06% Judaism 323 0.04% Baptist Church 310 0.04% Pentecostal Church 141 0.02% Calvinist Church 42 0.01% Old Catholic 39 0.01% Methodist Church 2 0.00% Other religions 1,393 0.18% Agnostic & uncommitted 31,645 4.06% Non-believers 27,617 3.54% Unknown 3,911 0.50% Total 779,145 100% References
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- ^ http://www.dzs.hr/Eng/censuses/Census2001/Popis/E01_02_02/E01_02_02_zup22.html
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- Croatian society
- Demographics by city
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