Average Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in Croatia amounted to €11,184 in 2016, 4.3 percent up from 2015, with only four out of 21 counties above that average – City of Zagreb, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Istria County, and Dubrovnik-Neretva County, the state statistics bureau reported on Wednesday.

At €19,546, the GDP per capita in the City of Zagreb, which has the legal status of both a city and a county, was three times the GDP per capita in the Virovitica-Podravina County, where the figure in 2016 was lowest, at €6,190.

City of Zagreb was also the only one where the GDP per capita in 2016 surpassed the EU28 average – it was 6.6 percent higher than in the EU.

Only three other counties recorded GDP per capita that was above the national average in 2016. Istria County’s GDP was 26.3 percent above average at €14,120, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County’s was 19.7 percent above average at €13.390, while Dubrovnik-Neretva County’s GDP per capita, at €11.272, was 0.8 percent above average.

However, all of these three counties lagged behind the EU average for 2016 by 20 to 40 percent – Istria County’s GDP per capita in 2016 was 77 percent of EU average, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County’s stood at 73.1 percent of EU average, while Dubrovnik-Neretva County’s GDP per capita was 61.5 of EU average.

In 2016, one third of economic activity in Croatia took place in the country’s smallest county, the City of Zagreb, where the GDP stood at €15.7 billion, or 33.6 percent of Croatia’s total GDP that year.

Meanwhile, the lowest GDP of €400 million was recorded in the Lika-Senj County, the largest in the country, which had a 0.9 percent share of the total GDP of Croatia in 2016.

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