ZAGREB, February 24, 2020 – Croatia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reached €11,893 per capita in 2017, with only the City of Zagreb and three coastal counties surpassing the national average, data from the National Bureau of Statistics shows.
Zagreb’s GDP per capita was three times as high as that of Virovitica-Podravina County, which was the lowest.
Expressed in the national currency, the kuna, Gross Domestic Product per capita in 2017 amounted to 88,726 kuna, which is a nominal growth rate of 5.4% compared with 2016, while the growth rate in euro is 6.4%.
Statistics also show that Croatia’s Gross Domestic Product per capita was 61.7% of the EU28 average.
The highest GDP per capita in 2017 was recorded in the City of Zagreb, reaching €20,850, which is 75.3% above the national average. Zagreb was also the only administrative unit in Croatia which had a Gross Domestic Product per capita higher than the EU28 average, namely 8.2% above the average.
Only three other counties, notably those on the Adriatic coast, had a GDP above the Croatian average. Istria County’s GDP per capita was €14,866, 25% above the national average, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County had a Gross Domestic Product per capita of €14,526, 22.1% above the national average, while Dubrovnik-Neretva County surpassed the national average by 5.7% with a Gross Domestic Product per capita of €12,575.
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