AI & jobs · Country profile
Croatia
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
MODELBased on the real occupation mix of women’s and men’s jobs (ILO).
Women are +15.7 pts more exposed, mostly because they hold more clerical and administrative jobs.
How it compares
MODELAI preparedness
IMFCroatiaHigh income average
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
- Grad Zagreb 36% exposed
- Split-Dalmatia 34% exposed
- Zagrebacka 32% exposed
- Osijek-Baranja 34% exposed
- Primorje-Gorski 35% exposed
- Istria 34% exposed
- Sisak-Moslavina 32% exposed
- Vukovar-Syrmia 32% exposed
- Varaždin 32% exposed
- Zadar 34% exposed
- Brod-Posavina 35% exposed
- Karlovac 34% exposed
- Krapina-Zagorje 32% exposed
- Bjelovar-Bilogora 32% exposed
- Dubrovnik-Neretva 34% exposed
- Koprivnica-Križevci 32% exposed
- Šibenik-Knin 34% exposed
- Međimurje 32% exposed
- Virovitica-Podravina 32% exposed
- Požega-Slavonia 31% exposed
- Lika-Senj 31% exposed