Of the ten most developed Croatian cities seven are on the coast. The Ministry of Regional Development has released a new model of urban development indexes for the period 2014-2016.

The most developed Croatian city is Zagreb, with a development index of 116.56, which means the average annual income per capita of 44.733 Kuna and average per capita income of 6,232 Kuna. The second is Dubrovnik with an index of 115.64 and revenues even higher than in Zagreb – 7,394 Kuna per capita. The third is Poreč, followed by Krk, Rovinj, Umag, Sveta Nedelja, Hvar, Opatija, Zaprešić and Novalja.

The development index is calculated factors such as average income per capita, average unemployment rate, general population trends, share of educated population aged 20 to 64 and age index.

In fact Dubrovnik has the second highest average salary in the ten most developed cities in Croatia, at 7,394 Kuna, only beaten by Opatija which has an average income of 7,626 Kuna.