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ISO 3166
HR
Main language + region
hr-HR
Currency
EUR · Euro
Region
EMEA · EU/UK

Croatia

Croatia has 4.2M people, and 3.5M of them are online. Croatian is the most widely spoken language at 99%, one of 4 languages CLDR lists here. Croatian is official nationally, and Italian and Venetian are official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to hr-HR.

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Market summary

Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.

People online

3.5M

0%world median 81%100%

84% of 4.2M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.

Income per person

$27,104

Higher than 71% of 213 territories

GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.

Can pay online

93%

0%world median 71%100%

Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.

Languages

4

Croatian 99% · English 49% · Italian 1.6%

Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.

English proficiency

617

Very lowVery high

Very high proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.

Adult literacy

99%

0%world median 95%100%

Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.

What people speak

Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.

Most spoken in Croatia

share of 4.2M people

Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.

CLDR records Croatian in 8 territories and 6.8M speakers in total; Croatia holds 61% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Croatian profile maps the whole footprint.

Day-one requirements

What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (hr-HR).

Plural categories

3

Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".

Script family

Latin

Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.

Reading direction

Left-to-right

Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.

Date

21. travnja 2026.

Short: 21. 04. 2026.

Time

18:30

Week starts Mon

Currency

1.234,56 €

1,234.56 in EUR · Euro