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Croatia: At-risk-of-poverty rate

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Croatia Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Croatia

Current reading for At-risk-of-poverty rate in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Latest value

19.50 Percent of people

European ranking

9 / 30

Improved by 4 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+4.2 puntos

Croatia is 4.2 points above the European average.

EU: 15.32

Affected population

≈ 0.76 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 19.50 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 16.23 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Panonska Hrvatska

    +46.70

    28.60

  2. 2

    Jadranska Hrvatska

    -2.60

    19.00

  3. 3

    Sjeverna Hrvatska

    -13.30

    16.90

  4. 4

    Grad Zagreb

    -41.50

    11.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Croatia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Croatia

In Croatia, Poverty risk is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 19.5% versus 16.2% in 2025, with a gap of 3.3 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Croatia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 18.30% in 2020 to 19.50% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 20.30% in 2024 to 19.50% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.

Regional differences in Croatia

In Croatia, Poverty risk shows noticeable regional variation. Across 4 comparable regions, Panonska Hrvatska records the highest value (28.6%) and Grad Zagreb the lowest (11.4%), a gap of 17.2 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Croatia, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.