AI & jobs · Country profile

Croatia

High income Capital: Zagreb 21 regions
34%
of jobs are in occupations exposed to generative AI. That's about 555K people.
MODEL35th of 183 most exposed World 21%High income 35%

Key numbers

Workers in exposed jobsMODEL
555K
of 1.6M in work
Highest-exposure jobsMODEL
6.1%
100K people
People in workILO
1.6M
47% women
UnemploymentWORLD BANK
5.0%
2025
Youth unemploymentWORLD BANK
16.5%
ages 15–24
GDP per capitaWORLD BANK
$27,104
US$, 2025
Internet usersWORLD BANK
84%
of population
AI preparednessIMF
0.58
41st of 165
PopulationWORLD BANK
3.9M
Tertiary enrolmentWORLD BANK
81%
gross ratio
Vulnerable employmentWORLD BANK
6%
own-account & family workers
Urban populationWORLD BANK
58%

Women and men

MODEL

Based on the real occupation mix of women’s and men’s jobs (ILO).

Women: any exposure 42%
Men: any exposure 26%
Women: highest exposure 8.3%
Men: highest exposure 4.0%

Women are +15.7 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.

How it compares

MODEL
Croatia 34%
High income 35%
Europe & Central Asia 32%
World 21%

AI preparedness

IMF
CroatiaHigh income average
Digital infrastructure 0.17
Human capital & labour policy 0.13
Innovation & integration 0.14
Regulation & ethics 0.14

IMF AI Preparedness Index (2023). The four parts sum to the overall score of 0.58 (0–1 scale).

Exposure vs preparedness

Croatia is highlighted. The other dots are all countries with both measures.

Sources: ILO modelled estimates 2025 · World Bank WDI · IMF AIPI · Anthropic Economic Index · Wikidata · Natural Earth. How the estimates are made.

Regions of Croatia