🇭🇷Croatia inflation rate

Croatia adopted the euro in 2023. Harmonised inflation (HICP) — the EU-wide measure the European Central Bank targets at 2% — stands at 4.9% as of May 2026. That is 2.9 percentage points above the ECB's 2% target, and 1.7 points above the euro-area average of 3.2%.

The breakdown shows core (excluding energy and food) at 3.7%, energy at 16.9%, food at 2.5% and services at 7.0%. The strongest pressure is in energy (16.9%), while food is the softest (2.5%).

Month on month the headline eased from 5.4% to 4.9%, a step down from the month before.

As a more recent euro adopter still converging toward western-European income levels, Croatia has tended to run inflation above the euro-area average — a structural pattern (faster catch-up growth lifting wages and services prices) seen across the bloc's central, eastern and Baltic members rather than a quirk of one month.