Croatia

Capital city — Zagreb

Country population
3,850,894
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01/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 3.
Type of government
Constitutional Republic (Presidential D…
Human Development Index
0.851
(43/188)
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2019
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
0.6
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2020
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice, Administration and…
Total number of incarcerated people
4,091
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31/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 3.
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
106.2
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31/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 3.
Average length of imprisonment (in mont…
Data not disclosed
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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 125.
Prison density
101 %
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31/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 16.
Total number of prison facilities
23
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2019
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
An NPM has been established
yes, since 2011
Number and percentage of incarcerated w…
1.9 %
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31/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 7a.
Number and percentage of incarcerated c…
0.7 %
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31/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 6.
Number and percentage of people awaitin…
36.4 %
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31/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 8.
The death penalty is abolished
yes, since 1990

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Safeguards

Physical integrity

Number of deaths in custody

23

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2022

/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 28.

Number of deaths attributed to suicide

3

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2022

/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 28.

Death rate in custody (per 10,000 prisoners)

56.2

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2022

/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 28.

Suicide rate in custody (per 10,000 prisoners)

7.3

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2022

/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 28.

National Preventive Mechanisms and other external control bodies

An NPM has been established

yes, since 2011