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Croatia has a Calm pressure reading, in the middle half.

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28.9 / 100

#140 of 206

Chance of a conflict escalation in Croatia in November or December 2026: 0.5% · remote

Chance of a conflict escalation in Croatia in November or December 2026

Government attribution notice published 26 October 2026

What counts
In November or December 2026, organised violence on the territory of Croatia, or with Croatia as an active party, must cause at least 25 battle-related deaths in a calendar month and at least twice the monthly average of the preceding three months. A conflict continuing at a steady high intensity does not meet this escalation threshold.
Months measured
the whole of November 2026 and the whole of December 2026.
Decided by
UCDP Candidate Events data (Uppsala Conflict Data Program), best estimate of battle-related deaths, monthly release. The question will be resolved by 5 Feb 2027 if the required UCDP data are available.
Resolution convention
For records spanning calendar months, deaths are allocated in proportion to inclusive calendar days. Events not assigned to a territory under the frozen UCDP place table are excluded from both the target month's total and the average of its preceding three months. Active party means the country's government is coded as a side by UCDP. Certain active-party attribution is retained, and each event is counted once per country.
Published
25 Oct 2026
Our estimate
0.5% · remote
If data are unavailable
If the required UCDP data are unavailable by 5 Feb 2027, the question is recorded as Unresolved.

Earlier issues in the forecast record

22 Oct 2026 · October or November 2026

24 Oct 2026 · November or December 2026

Population3.9M
CapitalZagreb
Area56.6k km²
GDP~$105.1B (2025)
CurrencyEUR
LanguagesCroatian
Armed forces20k (2020)
L1 Identity
n/a · identity, no pressure reading
L2 Economy
22.82
L3 Politics
55
L4 Events
27.5
L5 Information
34.68
L6 Society
48.83

Layer readings: method v1.1, from each layer's documented record, same 0-100 scale as country score. Snapshot 28 Oct 2026.

Since 1946

Highest decade mean 94.8 (1952-1959); lowest 22.5 (1980s).

Details

Recorded events 36 · Country record

  • 2025election
  • 2024election
  • 2020election
  • 25 Nov 2019street pressure
  • 2019election
  • 19 May 2018street pressure
  • 12 Apr 2018street pressure
  • 2015election
  • 2014election
  • 7 Apr 2013street pressure
  • 26 Feb 2011street pressure
  • 2010election
Show all 36
  • 2009election
  • 11 Dec 2005street pressure
  • 2005election
  • 1 Aug 2004external support
  • 1 Feb 2003external support
  • 1 Mar 2001external support
  • 2000election
  • 20 Feb 1998street pressure
  • 1 Mar 1997external support
  • 1997election
  • 21 Nov 1996street pressure
  • Aug 1995conflict escalation
  • May 1995conflict escalation
  • 1 Oct 1994external support
  • 1994currency stress
  • Sep 1993conflict escalation
  • Jan 1993conflict escalation
  • 1993currency stress
  • Jun 1992conflict escalation
  • May 1992conflict escalation
  • 1992currency stress
  • 1992sovereign stress
  • 1992election
  • 1991currency stress

public country snapshot archive, frozen 10 July 2026. The chart shows mapped historical scores through 2025, with bands at 55, 65 and 80. The 2026 snapshot uses a separate score scale. Its archived crisis category is independent of that number. No numerical change from 2025 to 2026 is implied.

Croatia · historical scale through 2025
YearMapped historical scoreHistorical bandRecord
195295.0Crisisarchive reading
195395.0Crisisarchive reading
195495.0Crisisarchive reading
195595.0Crisisarchive reading
195695.0Crisisarchive reading
195795.0Crisisarchive reading
195895.0Crisisarchive reading
195993.7Crisisarchive reading
196090.4Crisisarchive reading
196188.4Crisisarchive reading
196287.7Crisisarchive reading
196384.4Crisisarchive reading
196481.5Crisisarchive reading
196580.4Crisisarchive reading
196678.3Strainarchive reading
196776.9Strainarchive reading
196875.3Strainarchive reading
196972.3Strainarchive reading
197069.0Strainarchive reading
197165.9Strainarchive reading
197264.7Watcharchive reading
197363.3Watcharchive reading
197459.9Watcharchive reading
197558.7Watcharchive reading
197657.0Watcharchive reading
197751.1Calmarchive reading
197837.2Calmarchive reading
197926.5Calmarchive reading
198021.9Calmarchive reading
198122.1Calmarchive reading
198223.7Calmarchive reading
198328.3Calmarchive reading
198424.2Calmarchive reading
198525.3Calmarchive reading
198617.8Calmarchive reading
198718.8Calmarchive reading
198821.6Calmarchive reading
198921.2Calmarchive reading
199028.2Calmarchive reading
199179.7Strainarchive reading
199295.0Crisisarchive reading
199389.0Crisisarchive reading
199475.4Strainarchive reading
199588.9Crisisarchive reading
199666.3Strainarchive reading
199751.6Calmarchive reading
199851.3Calmarchive reading
199966.3Strainarchive reading
200056.4Watcharchive reading
200155.5Watcharchive reading
200253.0Calmarchive reading
200348.8Calmarchive reading
200447.2Calmarchive reading
200542.2Calmarchive reading
200639.1Calmarchive reading
200737.8Calmarchive reading
200836.7Calmarchive reading
200959.6Watcharchive reading
201059.3Watcharchive reading
201159.1Watcharchive reading
201260.5Watcharchive reading
201359.6Watcharchive reading
201460.1Watcharchive reading
201537.1Calmarchive reading
201641.9Calmarchive reading
201744.6Calmarchive reading
201845.6Calmarchive reading
201926.7Calmarchive reading
202055.3Watcharchive reading
202118.9Calmarchive reading
202220.3Calmarchive reading
202326.8Calmarchive reading
202428.6Calmarchive reading
202528.9Calmarchive reading
Croatia · 2026 snapshot, frozen 10 July 2026
Snapshot yearScore on the separate 2026 scaleIndependent archived crisis categoryRecord
202628.9Calmarchive reading

Years like now

3 similar years · Closest: Australia, 1958

Details

AUS, 1958

Published archive distance 0.2604. This similarity is not a forecast.

ARE, 2015

Published archive distance 0.2825. This similarity is not a forecast.

SVK, 2015

Published archive distance 0.3136. This similarity is not a forecast.

Last cycles

Last change: 17 Oct 2026, 1 field.

Details
Country change history for Croatia
CycleDateFields changedLayer distance from baselineRecord
date unavailable2026-10-280Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
17 Oct 20262026-10-171Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
6 Oct 20262026-10-061Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
25 Sep 20262026-09-250Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
14 Sep 20262026-09-140Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
4 Sep 20262026-09-040Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
27 Aug 20262026-08-271Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 1 · Society: 0Reconstructed from archived cycle files
14 Aug 20262026-08-142Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 1 · Information: 0 · Society: 1Reconstructed from archived cycle files
2 Aug 20262026-08-021Identity: 0 · Economy: 1 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Reconstructed from archived cycle files
29 Jul 20262026-07-29T13:40:26Z3Identity: 0 · Economy: 2 · Politics: 0 · Events: 1 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Reconstructed from archived cycle files
10 Jul 20262026-07-10T00:30:00Z0Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
🟢 Calm <55🟡 Watch 55-<65🟠 Strain 65-<80🔴 Crisis 80-100

Snapshot 28 Oct 2026 · Public country snapshot · Data notices

Technical detail

Field sources carry their own dates (shown in each detail).

Record support

How well documented each layer of this country's record is (share of confirmed and sourced fields). Not a pressure reading.

L1 Identity60%
L2 Economy53%
L3 Politics89%
L4 Events42%
L5 Information87%
L6 Society70%

Source: Hendeka record audit, snapshot 28 Oct 2026

Phase 1Confidence 65.4

Croatia in this snapshot

Croatia (HRV) records Calm pressure at 28.9 of 100 and touches 0 mapped pressure points.

The recorded country pattern is stable; its numbered pressure band is 1. The source confidence score is 65.4.

Snapshot 28 Oct 2026. Dataset published 2026-11-05T08:17:49Z. Source: public country snapshot public country index.

5 public layer readings; 0 mapped pressure points in this dated snapshot; 11 country change records; 75 archive readings. Identity is descriptive; absent readings are named beside each layer.

Croatia has pressure score 28.9/100 in Calm. 139 of 206 public Atlas entries have a higher score; 1 share this score. Its competition rank is 140. This is the published snapshot, not the mapped historical scale.

Adjacent entries in score-descending order (ties by case-folded name, then ISO3): Botswana (BWA), 29.6/100, higher by 0.7; Trinidad and Tobago (TTO), 28.6/100, lower by 0.3.

Croatia's highest decade mean is recorded in 1952-1959 (8 readings, mean 94.8). The lowest is 1980-1989 (10 readings, mean 22.5). Calendar decades use available years only; edge decades are partial. These means are calculated from published mapped scores, not the latest pressure scores.

Croatia: published archive aggregates by calendar decade
Observed yearsReadingsMeanMinimumMaximumAt or above 80
1952-1959894.893.7958
1960-19691081.672.390.46
1970-19791055.326.5690
1980-19891022.517.828.30
1990-19991069.228.2953
2000-20091047.636.759.60
2010-20191049.526.760.50
2020-2025629.818.955.30

Across 74 annual readings (1952-2025), Croatia's mapped-score peak is 95 in 1952-1958, 1992; the minimum is 17.8 in 1986.

Croatia is at or above the historical threshold 55 in 41 of 74 readings: 1952-1976, 1991-1996, 1999-2001, 2009-2014, 2020. The remaining 33 are below 55.

Croatia is at or above the historical threshold 65 in 27 of 74 readings: 1952-1971, 1991-1996, 1999. The remaining 47 are below 65.

Croatia is at or above the historical threshold 80 in 17 of 74 readings: 1952-1965, 1992-1993, 1995. The remaining 57 are below 80.

The latest observed annual historical-band change for Croatia is 2020 to 2021: Watch (55.3) to Calm (18.9). This compares annual historical readings; it does not describe a change between published country snapshots.

Croatia records no changed fields against the previous measured cycle at date unavailable (2026-10-28); previous cycle: 17 Oct 2026. Layer counts are distances from baseline, not cycle-change components.

Pressure point readings and their own snapshot date are shown in Pressure points.

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