The Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries - HAKOM issued a statement explaining that the ITU ranking gives an analysis of the ICT development in all the UN member-states.
Their performance is measured by ICT Development Index (IDI).
Croatia's IDI in 2016 was 6.96 points to rise to 7.24 points this year, and Croatia and five more countries have moved upward the ranking by more than five places.
Croatia made headway in areas measures by the three sub-indices: IDI access sub-index, IDI use sub-index, and IDI skills sub-index.
The 2017 edition of the Measuring the Information Society Report was launched during the World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium (WTIS) 2017, in Hammamet, Tunisia.
At the top of the rankings is Iceland.
In Europe, Croatia, for instance, fares better than Greece, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Italy, Hungary and Poland, according to press release issued by the Croatian regulator.
The 9th edition of the Measuring the Information Society Report, an annual report published by ITU since 2009, features key ICT data and benchmarking tool to measure the information society, the ICT Development Index (IDI).