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Croatia
21 NUTS-3 regions · aggregated from free, no-auth EU public data. Browse all regions →
Population
3.9m
GDP
€85.9B
GDP per capita
€22,173
Population density
69 /km²
Unemployment
5%
pop-weighted
Employment
74.2%
pop-weighted
Area
56,449.1 km²
NUTS-3 regions
21
Country indicators · 72 metrics (sums & pop-weighted averages)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€71.2B
country total
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€2.5B
country total
GVA — industry (B–E)
€11.0B
country total
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€9.0B
country total
GVA — construction (F)
€5.5B
country total
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€21.6B
country total
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€11,203
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
31,054 PPS
pop-weighted avg
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€22,199
pop-weighted avg
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€104.4B
country total · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€14.7B
country total · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€195.1B
country total · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€6.1B
country total
GVA — information & communication (J)
€4.0B
country total
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€15.6B
country total
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€15.0B
country total
Labour market
Employment, total persons
1.8m
country total
Self-employed persons
229.3k
country total
Employment in manufacturing (C)
276.4k
country total
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
72.3%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
18.1%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
240.7k
country total
Enterprise births
30.1k
country total
Enterprise deaths
12.8k
country total
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.5%
pop-weighted avg
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
6.8
country total
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
5 /M
pop-weighted avg
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.2%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
5.2%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
30.8%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
41.3%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
6.5%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
24.8%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
7.4%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
88.5%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
93.6m
country total
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
513 /1k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
3.3k
country total
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
86.2
pop-weighted avg
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
39.1
pop-weighted avg
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
34
country total
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
2.4m
country total
Population aged 65+
902.3k
country total
Population aged under 15
533.3k
country total
Median age of population
45.6 yrs
pop-weighted avg
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
37.1%
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of total population change
3.2 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
8.1 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude birth rate
8.3 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude death rate
13.2 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Live births
32.1k
country total
Deaths
51.1k
country total
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
58.9%
pop-weighted avg
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.46
pop-weighted avg
Population density (persons per km²)
61 /km²
pop-weighted avg
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
20.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
79.0 yrs
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
565 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,551 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
303 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.0 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
19.6 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
187 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
302 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
62 /M
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
297 m
pop-weighted avg
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
22 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
60 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
13 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
21.1
pop-weighted avg
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
20.5
pop-weighted avg
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
55.5
pop-weighted avg
Largest regions by GDP
HR050
Grad Zagreb
pop 777.4k · gdp €29.1B
HR035
Splitsko-dalmatinska županija
pop 430.5k · gdp €7.8B
HR031
Primorsko-goranska županija
pop 266k · gdp €6.7B
HR065
Zagrebačka županija
pop 310k · gdp €6.0B
HR036
Istarska županija
pop 204.7k · gdp €5.1B
HR025
Osječko-baranjska županija
pop 249.7k · gdp €4.1B
HR033
Zadarska županija
pop 165.8k · gdp €3.0B
HR062
Varaždinska županija
pop 158.9k · gdp €3.0B
HR037
Dubrovačko-neretvanska županija
pop 116.4k · gdp €2.6B
HR028
Sisačko-moslavačka županija
pop 134k · gdp €2.2B
HR061
Međimurska županija
pop 105k · gdp €1.9B
HR026
Vukovarsko-srijemska županija
pop 136.8k · gdp €1.9B