EU 16.23
· European ranking
7 / 30
Down 4 positions compared with previous year
Croatia: Poverty Rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
19.50% of people
EU 16.23 · +3.3 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people whose equivalised disposable income after social transfers is below 60% of the national median. It is a relative-income measure rather than a measure of absolute poverty.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat At-risk-of-poverty rate TESPM010
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Regional map
· 2025 · 4 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+46.67
28.60
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2-2.56
19.00
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3-13.33
16.90
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4-41.54
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.