
Telecommunication in Croatia
The development of telecommunications in Croatia is roughly equivalent to the United States. Under the country code +385, there were a total of 5.67 million connections in 2021. Among them were 4.40 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.1 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 729,420 webhosts, Croatia is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 90,474 of these, or about 12 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 45.53 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Croatia ranks 87th in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 19.33 Mbit/second was significantly lower (91st place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Croatia comes 22nd with a download speed of 74.37 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 16 Mbit was enough for 21st place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in December 2022 from 178 countries.
The following diagrams show the development of the various telephone and internet connections as a percentage of the country's population. Values above 100 percent mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.
Access to the internet in Croatia from 1990 - 2021
Broadband internet in Croatia 2003 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
Distribution in 2021 | Croatia Total | Croatia percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Broadband users | 1.05 m | 26.89 % | 127.03 m | 38.27 % |
Landlines | 1.27 m | 32.55 % | 97.11 m | 29.26 % |
Mobile cellulars | 4.40 m | 112.91 % | 361.62 m | 108.96 % |