Croatia’s registered unemployment rate fell to 3.8% in April 2026 from 4.3% in the previous month, marking the lowest rate since June 2025. The number of unemployed persons dropped 11.1% from a month earlier to a record low of 67.5 thousand, of whom 35.7 thousand were women. Employment rose 0.3% to 1.702 million, while the labor force declined 0.2% to 1.770 million. Meanwhile, paid employment in legal entities declined 0.2%, with the sharpest decreases recorded in mining and quarrying (-0.7%), manufacturing (-0.8%), water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities (-1.4%), construction (-1.2%), and professional, scientific and technical activities (-1.4%). In contrast, employment increased in agriculture, forestry, and fishing (0.8%), electricity, gas, steam, and air conditioning supply (0.2%), accommodation and food service activities (4.5%), publishing, broadcasting, and content production and distribution (0.6%), and education (0.2%). source: Croatian Bureau of Statistics
Unemployment Rate in Croatia decreased to 3.80 percent in April from 4.30 percent in March of 2026. Unemployment Rate in Croatia averaged 14.72 percent from 1996 until 2026, reaching an all time high of 23.60 percent in January of 2002 and a record low of 3.80 percent in June of 2025. This page provides - Croatia Unemployment Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. Croatia Unemployment Rate - data, historical chart, forecasts and calendar of releases - was last updated on May of 2026.
Unemployment Rate in Croatia decreased to 3.80 percent in April from 4.30 percent in March of 2026. Unemployment Rate in Croatia is expected to be 4.60 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Croatia Unemployment Rate is projected to trend around 4.40 percent in 2027 and 4.30 percent in 2028, according to our econometric models.