CROATIA

Capital Zagreb
Area (km2) 56 542
Total population (thousands, 2017) 4 130
Population density (per km2) 73
National currency Croatian kuna (HRK)
National statistical office www.dzs.hr
Croatian Bureau of Statistics
Women in the labour force, 2017
   percentage of total for both sexes 46%
Gender pay gap
   monthly earnings, 2016 13%
   hourly wage, 2017 12%
Women in part-time employment, 2017
   percentage of employed women 7%
Female tertiary students, 2016
   percentage of total for both sexes 57%
Female victims of homicide, 2017
   percentage of total for both sexes 42%
Women researchers, 2016
   percentage of total for both sexes 48%
Life expectancy at birth, 2017
   females, years 81.0
   males, years 74.9
Life expectancy at 65, 2017
   females, years 18.9
   males, years 15.5
Total fertility rate, 2017
   average number of children per woman 1.4
Adolescent fertility rate, 2017
   number of live births per 1000 women aged 15-19 9.3
Mean age of women at birth of first child, 2017
   age in years 28.9
 
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Employment
 (% change over previous year)
-3.6
-2.6
2.7
1.2
0.3
2.2
Unemployment rate
 (%)
15.8
17.4
17.2
16.1
13.4
11.0
Youth unemployment rate
 (%)
42.1
50.0
45.5
42.3
31.3
27.4
GDP
   current prices, millions of US dollars, PPP, 2017 108 689
GDP, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2017 26 318
Exports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2018 50.5
Imports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2018 51.4
Final consumption expenditure, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2017 20 425
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
   HRK per USD, US=1, 2017 3.371
Forest resources
   Area of forest
 (percentage of land area, 2015)
 34
   Wood volume
 (m3 per inhabitant, 2015)
 99
Transport infrastructure, road accidents and traffic
   Railways
      total length in kilometres, 2017 2 604
   Motorways
      total length in kilometres, 2017 1 310
   Persons injured in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2017 3 537
   Persons killed in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2017 80
   Traffic, railways
      million passenger-kilometres, 2017 745
      million tonne-kilometres, 2017 2 592
   Traffic, roads
      million passenger-kilometres, 2017 31 862
      million tonne-kilometres, 2017 11 833