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Croatia: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

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

Country: Croatia Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion Year: 2025

Country overview

Croatia

Current reading for Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Latest value

20.70 Percent of people

European ranking

13 / 30

Compared with Europe

+0.7 puntos

Croatia is 0.7 points above the European average.

EU: 20.04

Affected population

≈ 0.80 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 20.70 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 20.40 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Panonska Hrvatska

    +44.90

    30.00

  2. 2

    Jadranska Hrvatska

    -0.50

    20.60

  3. 3

    Sjeverna Hrvatska

    -15.00

    17.60

  4. 4

    Grad Zagreb

    -40.10

    12.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Croatia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, although the difference is relatively small. 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 or exclusion is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 20.7% versus 20.4% in 2025, a gap of 0.3 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Croatia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 20.50% in 2020 to 20.70% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 21.70% in 2024 to 20.70% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.

Regional differences in Croatia

In Croatia, Poverty or exclusion shows noticeable regional variation. Across 4 comparable regions, Panonska Hrvatska records the highest value (30%) and Grad Zagreb the lowest (12.4%), a gap of 17.6 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.