Croatia

Wealth and National Well-Being

Country Comparisons:
2010: see chart

Unemployment rate:
2010:17.6%

Public Debt:
2010: 55% of GDP

People

Living in an urban area
2010: 58%

Ethnicities
2001 census: Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, other 5.9% (including Bosniak, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, and Roma). Many Croats remain hostile to Serbs.

Religions
2001 census: Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, other Christian 0.4%, Muslim 1.3%, other and unspecified 0.9%, none

Geography

Southeastern Europe, at the northeast of the Adriatic Sea, north of Bosnia-Herzegovina, south of Slovenia.

Government

A presidential/parliamentary democracy. Capital: Zagreb.

Recent History

The World Factbook in 2004 writes: "Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands. Under UN supervision, the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998."

January 16, 2005: President Stipe Mesic, supported by a center-left coalition, has won a second five-year term, with 66 percent of the vote. He spoke of his pride in the maturity of Croatia's democracy.

SOURCES:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/