EU 20.40
· European ranking
13 / 30
Down 2 positions compared with previous year
Croatia: Poverty & Social Exclusion Risk
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
20.70% of people
EU 20.40 · +0.3 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people experiencing at least one of three conditions: risk of poverty after social transfers, severe material and social deprivation, or living in a household with very low work intensity. People meeting more than one condition are counted only once.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion ILC_PEPS11N
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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+44.93
30.00
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2-0.48
20.60
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3-14.98
17.60
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4-40.10
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.