Public policy actors from the area of substantive-legal and procedural-legal criminal justice and the criminal-legal system need reliable and quality statistical indicators. Therefore, criminal justice statistics data are an important instrument for studying the structure of criminality, decision-making process of criminal prosecution bodies and are a useful tool for evaluating the functioning of the system, thereby influencing the prevention and suppression of crime.

In 2025, there were no significant changes compared to the previous year concerning the total number of judges, state attorneys and their deputies, and their sex distribution. The number of law trainees decreased by 6.8% as compared to the previous year.


In 2025, state attorney’s offices in the Republic of Croatia decided upon crime reports for 48 746 adult perpetrators of criminal offences, which was 1.7% less than in 2024. The number of accused persons increased by 9.5% and the number of convicted persons by 6.7%, as compared to the previous year.

In 2025, a total of 1 259 juvenile perpetrators were reported, 290 of them were accused and 264 were convicted. Criminal offences against property were the most frequent offence, with 546 crime reports (43.4%) filled, followed by criminal offences against life and limb (14.8%) and personal freedom (11.0%).

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