European ranking
9 / 30
Improved by 4 positions since the previous year
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
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
Embedded regional ranking preview with real regional values and shared semantic bars.
Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate
Granularity: Regions
Panonska Hrvatska
28.60
Jadranska Hrvatska
19.00
Sjeverna Hrvatska
16.90
Grad Zagreb
11.40
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.