Country Sheet : Croatia

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Last Update on 9th July 2024

CROATIA

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Geography

Area : 56,542 km²

Borders : 2,197 km, Bosnia and Herzegovina 932 km, Hungary 329 km, Serbia 241 km, Montenegro 25 km, Slovenia 670 km

Coastline : 5,835 km (Adriatic Sea) (Continental: 1,777 km; Islands: 4,058 km)

Capital : Zagreb

Official language : Croatian

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Population

Population : 4,169,239 inhabitants (est. 2023)

Crude natural change rate : -6‰ (2022)

Population repartition: 14% under 15 years; 22.6% over 65 years and more (est. 2023)

Foreign residents: EU nationals 1%, extra-EU nationals 2% (2021)

Crude net migration rate: -0.3‰ (est. 2023)

First time asylum applicants: 12,870 (2022)

Life expectancy: men 74.4 years, women 80.8 years (est. 2023)

Religions: Roman Catholic 86.3%, Orthodox 4.4%, Muslim 1.5%, other 1.5%, unspecified 2.5%, atheist 3.8% (2011)

Source : Eurostat, The World Factbook

Economy

Currency: Euro

GDP: € 66,939 million (2022)

GDP per capita (PPS): € 14,540 (2022)

GDP growth : 1.6% (2023)

Inflation: 4.3% (May 2024)

Public debt: 68.4% (December 2022)

Unemployment: 5.3% (May 2024)

Stock of foreign direct investment from the entire world: 54.7% of GDP (2022)

Performance sectors: tourism, buildings and construction, trade, banking, chemistry, textile

Budget balance: -8.1% (Q4 2023)

Source : Eurostat, National bank of Croatia

Political system

Parliamentary republic

Head of State: Zoran Milanović (Social Democratic Party SDP), elected on 5th January 2020 (invested on 18th February 2020) for five years by direct universal suffrage.

Prime Minister: Andrej Plenkovic since 19th October 2016 and reelected on April 27th 2024 for 4 years. He leads a coalition between HDZ and the Patriotic movement (DP).

Monocameral parliamentary regime: The Parliament (Hrvatski Sabor) comrising 151 seats; representatives are elected for four years by direct universal suffrage according to proportional representation.