Analyse commerciale de la Croatie (en Anglais)

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CONTENTS

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

DESCRIPTION OF GEOGRAPHY AND DEMOGRAPHY

DESCRIPTION OF THE HISTORICAL PAST

DESCRIPTION OF THE POLITICAL REGIME

ACCESSION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION

POLITICAL RISK ASSESSMENT

1. Stability of government and institutions
2. Socio-economic conditions
3. The level of corruption
4. Security conditions in the country linked to crime and terrorism
5. Internal (and external) conflicts and ethnic pressures
6. External conflicts and its foreign policy

GEOGRAPHICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT

DESCRIPTION OF COUNTRY ECONOMICS

HARD POWER EVALUATION

SOFT POWER EVALUATION

DESCRIPTION OF VALUES, NORMS AND PREFERENCES

DESCRIPTION OF COUNTRY INFRASTRUCTURE

1. Transportation and conditions of roads and airports
2. Education
3. Communication
4. Social media
5. Energy Grid Consistency
6. Health and security

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Complete Name: The Republic of Croatia

Capital: Zagreb

National holiday: 25 June (anniversary of the declaration of independence in 1991)

Official language (s): Croatian, Serbian

Current language (s): Croatian

Currency: Croatian Mint: Kuna (HRK) (1 € = about 7.6 HRK)

Latitude: 44° 28' 25.63" N

Longitude: 16° 28' 7.94" E

Country ISO codes: HR / HRV / 191

Time Zone: UTC+1 (CET), UTC+2 (CEST)

Calling Code: +385

DESCRIPTION OF GEOGRAPHY AND DEMOGRAPHY

Area: 56,594 km²

Main cities: Zagreb - 800,000 inhabitants (1.1 million with the agglomeration), Split (190,000 inhabitants), Rijeka (145.000 inhabitants), Osijek, Zadar

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Croatia is positioned in both the northern and eastern hemispheres and is located in the southeastern region of the European Continent. Croatia is bordered by the countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro, and Slovenia, as well as the Adriatic Sea.

Croatia is composed of three major geographic regions.

In the north and northeast, running the full length of the upper arm of the Croatian crescent, are the Pannonian and para-Pannonian plains. To the north of Zagreb, the Zagorje Hills, fragments of the Julian Alps now covered with vines and orchards, separate the Sava and Drava river valleys.

To the west and south of the Pannonian region, linking it with the Adriatic coast, is the central mountain belt, itself part of the Dinaric Alps. The karst plateaus of this region, consisting mostly of limestone, are barren at the highest elevations; lower down, they are heavily forested. The highest mountain in Croatia, Dinara (6,007 feet [1,831 meters]), is located in the central mountain belt.

The third geographic region, the Croatian littoral, is composed of the Istrian Peninsula in the north and the Dalmatian coast extending south to the Gulf of Kotor. Wedged between the Dinaric Alps to the east and the Adriatic Sea to the west, its 1,100 miles (1,800 km) of coastline are fringed by more than 1,100 islands and islets.

Croatia is not only the third largest country in Europe in terms of water reserves, but also offers an extremely well preserved natural environment, home to hundreds of endemic plant and animal species, and almost 10% of its national territory is protected through 11 natural parks, 8 national parks and two strictly protected nature reserves.

Croatia's territory is in the form of a horseshoe stretching from Vukovar in the northeast to Dubrovnik in the far south, via Zagreb in the west. Its current configuration dates back largely to the end of the 18th century.

Population (2018): 4,105,493 inhabitants

Density: 72.54 inhabitants/km2

Occupied area: About 60% of its inhabitants live in urban areas, which constitute less than 15% of the country's total surface area. One in five inhabitants live in the capital, Zagreb.

Coastline: 5,835 km

Shared borders: 2,237 km

Waterways: 785 km

Population growth: -1.19%

Fertility rate: 1.5 children per woman

Net Migrations Per Day: - 20

Life expectancy: 72.5 years (men), 79.3 years (women) 

Literacy rate: 99.3%. 

Religion (s): Majority Catholicism (87.8%), Orthodox (4.4%), Muslim (1.3%), Protestant (0.3%)

Human Development Index (2016): 0.827 (45th HDI worldwide)

Age pyramid

• 0-14 years old: 14.22% (men 315,971/women 297,339)
• 15-24 years old: 11.4% (men 252,285/women 239,634)
• 25-54 years old: 40.75% (men 878,971/women 878,707)
• 55-64 years old: 14.83% (men 312,621/women 326,929)
• 65 years old and over: 18.81% (men 320,418/women 490,832)

Median age

• total: 42.7 years
• men: 40.8 years old
• women: 44.8 years old

GINI Index: 29.7 (low, 17th)

Human Development Index: 0.831 (very high, 46th)

Poverty rate: 4.6%

Foreign language: 78% of Croatians speak at least one foreign language. About half speak English as a second language, while 34% speak German and 14% speak Italian. Croatian is the official language in Croatia.

DESCRIPTION OF THE HISTORICAL PAST

Modern Croatia, independent since 1991, is the heir to the medieval Croatian principalities of the nineteenth century that were formed on the steps (fiefdoms in the border area) of the Carolingian Empire, then the heir to the Kingdom of Croatia, founded in 925, at the time of King Tomislav. Shortly after the death of the last great Croatian king, Dmitar Zvonimir, Croatia entered into a personal union with Hungary in 1102, whose throne reverted to the French Anjou dynasty in the 14th century.

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