🇭🇷Croatia inflation rate
released 19 Aug 2026 · data through July 2026 · next release expected 31 Aug 2026
Croatia adopted the euro in 2023. Harmonised inflation (HICP) — the EU-harmonised measure that makes prices comparable across Europe — stands at 3.6% as of July 2026. That is 1.6 percentage points above the ECB's 2% target, and 0.6 points above the eurozone average of 3.0%.
The breakdown shows core (excluding energy and food) at 3.4%, energy at 11.5%, food at 0.7% and services at 6.8%. The strongest pressure is in energy (11.5%), while food is the softest (0.7%).
Month on month the headline eased from 4.2% to 3.6%, 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.
Croatia ranks number 8 of 30 European economies by annual inflation, from highest to lowest, between Belgium and Luxembourg.
Croatia's harmonised inflation is 3.6% as of July 2026 — abovethe European Central Bank's 2% target by 1.6 percentage points.
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Frequently asked questions
- What is Croatia's current inflation rate?
- Croatia's annual inflation rate, measured by the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP), is 3.6% as of July 2026.
- Is Croatia's inflation above or below the ECB's 2% target?
- At 3.6%, it is 1.6 percentage points above the European Central Bank's 2% target.
- How does Croatia's inflation compare with the rest of Europe?
- Croatia ranks number 8 of 30 European economies by inflation, 0.6 points above the eurozone average of 3.0%.
- Did Croatia's inflation rise or fall last month?
- Month on month, the headline rate eased from 4.2% to 3.6% in July 2026.