The EU fertility rate rose from 1.47 children per woman in 2003 to 1.60 children per woman in 2009, while in Croatia it went up from 1.32 children per woman in 2003 to 1.49 children in 2009.
Since 2003, fertility rate has been going up in all EU member states except Luxembourg, Malta and Portugal.
The highest rate of 2.07 children per woman was registered in Ireland in 2009, followed by France with two children per woman, Britain (1.96) and Sweden (1.94).
At the bottom of the list were Latvia (1.31), Hungary and Portugal (1.32) and Germany (1.36).
In 2009 life expectancy for the EU-27 was 76.4 years for men and 82.4 years for women. In Croatia, it was 79.7 years for women and 73 years for men.
When it comes to aging, the oldest populations are in Germany and Italy, with median ages of respectively 44.2 and 43.1 and the youngest by far in Ireland, with 34.3.