GDP per capita 77,465 kuna, even a third of economic activities take place in Zagreb

Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in Croatia in 2013 amounted to 77,465 kuna, with the highest being in Zagreb at 137,321 kuna, while the lowest was three times lower at 44,366 kuna in Brod-Posavina County, according to data from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics (DZS).

Expressed in euros, GDP per capita in 2013 was 10,228 euros.

Statistics show that GDP per capita in Croatia in 2013 slightly increased expressed in kuna, by 0.07 percent compared to 2012, while in euros it recorded a decline of 0.67 percent.

DZS published final data on Croatia’s GDP for 2013 in mid-last year, in which GDP fell in real terms by 1.1 percent compared to 2012. According to statistical data, Croatia’s GDP in 2013 (at current prices) amounted to  329.57 billion kuna, and expressed in euros it amounted to 43.5 billion euros.

DZS presents data on GDP per capita in the GDP statistics for Croatia, spatial units for second-level statistics, and counties, and the data is presented according to the methodology of the European System of National and Regional Accounts (ESA 2010).  

Data for 2013 show that in the total Croatian GDP, continental Croatia – the City of Zagreb and 13 counties – has a share of almost 70 percent, while Adriatic Croatia with seven counties has a share slightly above 30 percent.

The GDP of continental Croatia in 2013 amounted to 224.4 billion kuna, or 29.63 billion euros, što is a share of 68.1 percent in the total GDP of Croatia, while with a GDP of 105.16 billion kuna, or 13.88 billion euros, the share of Adriatic Croatia was 31.9 percent.

DZS notes that regional GDP is an indicator of the production of the region and can therefore be used to measure and compare the level of economic activity of different regions. They add that regional GDP is not a measure of regional wealth or regional income.

A third of economic activities in Zagreb

Statistical data by counties show that a third of economic activities in Croatia take place in Zagreb, whose GDP in 2013 amounted to 109.2 billion kuna or 14.4 billion euros, što represents a share of 33.1 percent in the total Croatian GDP, while the smallest GDP is in Lika-Senj County, at 2.9 billion kuna or 386 million euros, što represents a share of 0.9 percent in the total GDP.

According to DZS data, GDP per capita for Zagreb in 2013 was 18,132 euros, što is 77.3 percent above the national average.

Only two other counties, both Adriatic, have GDP per capita above the Croatian average – Primorje-Gorski Kotar with 12,930 euros is 26.4 percent above the national average, and Istria with 12,711 euros is 24.3 percent above the average.

The closest to the average is another Adriatic county – Dubrovnik-Neretva County with 9,969 euros GDP per capita, što is 2.5 percent below the average.

This is followed by six counties that have GDP per capita greater than 8,000 euros – Koprivnica-Križevci 8,768 euros, Međimurje 8,481 euros, Varaždin 8,415 euros, Zadar 8,173 euros, Osijek-Baranja 8,121 euros, and Šibenik-Knin 8,051 euros. These counties lag behind the Croatian average by 14.3 to 21.3 percent.

The lowest GDP per capita continues to be in Brod-Posavina County – 5,858 euros in 2013 – što is 42.7 percent less than the Croatian average, and more than three times less than in Zagreb.

Vukovar-Srijem County also lags slightly more than 40 percent behind the Croatian average with 6,025 euros per capita, Virovitica-Podravina with 6,043 euros, Požega-Slavonia 6,102 euros, and with 6,380 euros Krapina-Zagorje County is 37.6 percent below the Croatian average GDP per capita.