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Croatia: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

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

Country: Croatia Indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20 Year: 2025

Country overview

Croatia

Current reading for Income quintile share ratio S80/S20 in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

Latest value

4.80 Ratio

European ranking

11 / 30

Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+0.3 puntos

Croatia is 0.3 points above the European average.

EU: 4.53

Affected population

3.9M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 4.78 Ratio Europe benchmark: 4.73 Ratio

Internal regions

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Indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Panonska Hrvatska

    +10.40

    5.30

  2. 2

    Grad Zagreb

    -10.40

    4.30

  3. 3

    Jadranska Hrvatska

    -10.40

    4.30

  4. 4

    Sjeverna Hrvatska

    -12.50

    4.20

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Croatia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Income quintile share ratio S80/S20, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Croatia

In Croatia, S80/S20 ratio is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 4.78 versus 4.73 in 2025, a gap of 0.05 in the ratio.

Recent trend

In Croatia, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 4.59 in 2020 to 4.78 in 2025. The latest step, from 4.97 in 2024 to 4.78 in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.

Regional differences in Croatia

In Croatia, regional values for S80/S20 ratio are relatively close. Across 4 comparable regions, Panonska Hrvatska records the highest value (5.3) and Sjeverna Hrvatska the lowest (4.2), a gap of 1.1 in the ratio.

Reading within the topic

In Croatia, Income & Purchasing Power shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.