European ranking
6 / 30
Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year
Croatia: Overcrowding rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Croatia
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
31.80 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
+9.5 puntos
Croatia is 9.5 points above the European average.
EU: 22.31
Affected population
≈ 1.23 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Croatia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Croatia
In Croatia, Overcrowding stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 31.8% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 13.2 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Croatia, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 36.20% in 2020 to 31.80% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 31.70% in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous improvement.
Reading within the topic
In Croatia, Housing & Energy Stress 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.