Human Development & Quality of Life in Croatia
HDI 0.889 · UNDP rank 41 · latest published data
With HDI 0.889 for 2023, Croatia sits at rank 41 in UNDP's latest table and falls in the very high human development group. The aggregate hides useful detail: The health component is anchored by life expectancy of 78.6 years. The profile also records that planetary pressures reduce the adjusted index to 0.787, a 11.5% change from HDI.
What sits inside Croatia's HDI
For Croatia, health contributes through life expectancy of 78.6; education through 16.3 expected and 12.1 mean years of schooling; and income through GNI per capita of $41,380 in 2021 PPP dollars. Those are the published inputs behind the 2023 HDI.
Inequality changes the headline
The inequality-adjusted measure for Croatia applies a distribution penalty to the same three HDI dimensions. It should therefore be read alongside HDI, not as a separate life-satisfaction score.
Gender and planetary-pressure adjustments
Alongside the headline HDI, the published data for Croatia include GDI 0.999, GII 0.074, PHDI 0.787. Reading them together is useful, but combining them would obscure their different definitions.
Quality-of-life coverage is conditional
A comparable life-satisfaction observation was not available in the OECD extract used for Croatia. An unavailable observation remains omitted rather than estimated.
What Croatia's numbers say together
The supporting measures for Croatia are IHDI 0.828 with a 6.9% loss; PHDI 0.787 after a 11.5% adjustment; GDI 0.999. The indicators add context without becoming a single composite DigifyWorld rating.
Looking at the published indicators, the headline UNDP result for Croatia is HDI 0.889, rank 41, for 2023. Broader quality-of-life indicators remain outside that index. For the profile as a whole, distinguish the composite from its components because the evidence is strongest when each metric keeps its own scope.
The IHDI is 0.828, and UNDP reports an overall loss of 6.9% relative to the headline index.
The GDI value is 0.999 in group 1; it should be read alongside, not merged into, HDI.
The PHDI is 0.787, with a 11.5% adjustment from the HDI value in UNDP's 2023 table.
Frequently asked questions
What is Croatia's HDI?
For Croatia, the 2025 UNDP report publishes a 2023 HDI value of 0.889 and rank 41.
How does inequality affect Croatia's HDI?
Croatia's Inequality-adjusted HDI is 0.828. The published overall loss is 6.9% relative to HDI.
Why is there no life satisfaction score on this page?
For Croatia, subjective well-being is shown only with a verified comparable observation. An unavailable observation remains omitted rather than estimated.
Is HDI the same as quality of life?
No. HDI has three core dimensions: health, knowledge and standard of living. A subjective well-being observation is contextual information here, not an HDI component.
Sources & methodology
Sources for the development indicators and definitions shown above.
View sources used for this page
Primary source for 2023 HDI and its components, plus IHDI, GDI, GII and PHDI where reported.
Report edition underlying the 2023 human-development indices and ranking.
Data note: Reference years are shown with each indicator; unavailable observations remain unfilled.