Country profile - HRV

Corruption in Croatia

21 sub-national regions - 1995-2022. Latest country-level SCI: 65.3 (2022).

Grand: 32.6 Petty: 85.3 Latest observed: 2019

Croatia: key corruption facts

The most corrupt region of Croatia is Dubrovacko-neretvanska zupanija (59.8/100), and the least corrupt is Viroviticko-podravska zupanija (70.6/100), on a 0-100 scale where 0 is most corrupt and 100 is least. All 21 regions are ranked below.

  • In 2022, Croatia's national Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) was 65.3/100, on a scale where 0 is the most corrupt and 100 the least corrupt.
  • Most corrupt region: Dubrovacko-neretvanska zupanija (SCI 59.8/100, 2022).
  • Least corrupt region: Viroviticko-podravska zupanija (SCI 70.6/100, 2022).
  • Grand corruption (SGCI): 32.6/100; petty corruption (SPCI): 85.3/100 (last directly observed in 2019).
  • Trend: Croatia's SCI moved from 59/100 (1995) to 65.3/100 (2022).
  • Coverage: 21 regions, 1995–2022. Source: Subnational Corruption Database (Crombach & Smits, 2024, Nature Scientific Data), CC BY 4.0.

How Croatia compares: SCD vs. the CPI and World Bank

The Subnational Corruption Index is scored 0–100 on the same orientation as Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (higher = cleaner). The difference: the CPI and the World Bank measure the perceptions of experts and business executives and report one national number, while the SCI is built from what ordinary households perceive and experience — and it breaks Croatia into 21 regions.

Index Latest Scale Based on
Subnational Corruption Index (SCI) 65.3 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Households — perception & experience
Transparency International CPI 50 0–100 (100 = cleanest) Experts & business surveys
World Bank Control of Corruption 0.1 ≈ −2.5 to 2.5 Aggregated expert sources

Most recent year — SCI 2022, CPI 2022, CCI 2022. The SCD also publishes region-anchored SUB-CPI and SUB-CCI series so the CPI and World Bank measures can be read at the regional level.

SCI trajectory - 1995-2022

Country-level mean of the Subnational Corruption Index, averaged across all 21 regions. Higher values mean cleaner governance (0 = most corrupt, 100 = least corrupt).

68 58 1995 2022

Source: SCD v1.0 (Comprehensive Dataset). Years where the panel was filled by inter/extrapolation are included in the country mean.

Regions (21)

Each row is a sub-national region with its latest SCI score. Click into any row for the region's full time series.

# Region GDL code Years Latest SCI
1 Dubrovacko-neretvanska zupanija HRVr121 1995-2022 59.8
2 Zadarska zupanija HRVr117 1995-2022 60.3
3 Brodsko-posavska zupanija HRVr110 1995-2022 60.5
4 Bjelovarsko-bilogorska zupanija HRVr107 1995-2022 60.6
5 Karlovacka zupanija HRVr113 1995-2022 60.9
6 Vukovarsko-srijemska zupanija HRVr112 1995-2022 61.8
7 Grad Zagreb HRVr101 1995-2022 62.4
8 Medimurska zupanija HRVr106 1995-2022 63.9
9 Varazdinska zupanija HRVr104 1995-2022 63.9
10 Primorsko-goranska zupanija HRVr115 1995-2022 64
11 Licko-senjska zupanija HRVr116 1995-2022 66.5
12 Sisacko-moslavacka zupanija HRVr114 1995-2022 66.6
13 Zagrebacka zupanija HRVr102 1995-2022 66.8
14 Osjecko-baranjska zupanija HRVr111 1995-2022 67.3
15 Istarska zupanija HRVr120 1995-2022 68.5
16 Koprivnicko-krizevacka zupanija HRVr105 1995-2022 68.7
17 Splitsko-dalmatinska zupanija HRVr119 1995-2022 69
18 Krapinsko-zagorska zupanija HRVr103 1995-2022 69.3
19 Pozesko-slavonska zupanija HRVr109 1995-2022 69.5
20 Sibensko-kninska zupanija HRVr118 1995-2022 70.5
21 Viroviticko-podravska zupanija HRVr108 1995-2022 70.6

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Per-country panel slice in CSV format. Columns: iso, country, gdl, region, year, sci. Direct dataset citations should reference the Figshare deposit (see How to cite).

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