According to the latest Eurostat data, Croatia is the second poorest country in the EU and only Bulgaria is poorer than it.
Luxembourg is the richest with 35% above the European average, followed by Germany with 22%.
Austria, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, France and Sweden make up the group of countries that have real individual consumption of 9 to 18 percent above the EU average.
Romania is not in that group, but is far ahead of Croatia, which overtook it in 2015.
That year, the two countries were at 58 percent of the EU average, and now, according to new data for 2019, Romania is at 79 percent of the EU average, and Croatia at 66 percent.
