In 2015, the poverty risk threshold for a single household was HRK 25,000 a year, while for a household consisting of two adults and two children under 14 it was HRK 52,500.
In 2014, the poverty risk threshold for a single household was HRK 23,760 a year or HRK 1,980 a month, while for a household consisting of two adults and two children under 14 it was HRK 49,896 a year or HRK 4,158 a month.
Social transfers have considerable influence on the poverty risk rate. If they were excluded from income, the percentage of people at risk of poverty would jump to 31%. If both social transfers and pensions were excluded from income, the poverty risk rate would soar to 45%.
In 2015, the material deprivation rate stood at 32.8%. This rate represents a portion of the population unable to afford three out of nine items such as paying rent, paying utility bills, servicing household loans or consumer loans, a week-long holiday outside home, or they cannot afford fish or meat every day, heating in cold winter days, and so on.
Last year, the severe material deprivation rate was 14%, and this refers to inability to afford four out of the nine items.
In 2014, the severe material deprivation rate was 13.9%. One in ten people could not afford adequate heating in winter, 12.7% could not afford a meat or fish meal every other day, and 29.1% were late paying their utility bills.