Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Croatia instead of Aruba, you would:

Health

live 0.8 years less

In Aruba, the average life expectancy is 78 years (75 years for men, 81 years for women) as of 2022. In Croatia, that number is 77 years (74 years for men, 81 years for women) as of 2022.

Economy

be 21.3% less likely to be unemployed

In Aruba, 7.7% of adults are unemployed as of 2016. In Croatia, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

pay a 20.0% lower top tax rate

Aruba has a top tax rate of 59.0% as of 2016. In Croatia, the top tax rate is 47.2% as of 2016.

Life

be 27.7% less likely to die during infancy

In Aruba, approximately 12.1 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Croatia, on the other hand, 8.7 children do as of 2022.

have 26.7% fewer children

In Aruba, there are approximately 11.6 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Croatia, there are 8.5 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Basic Needs

be 16.5% less likely to have internet access

In Aruba, approximately 97.0% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Croatia, about 81.0% do as of 2021.

Expenditures

spend 11.3% less on education

Aruba spends 6.2% of its total GDP on education as of 2016. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

Geography

see 85.2 times more coastline

Aruba has a total of 68 km of coastline. In Croatia, that number is 5,835 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: Croatia Tax Administration, The World Factbook, Ministerio di Finansas, Comunicacion, Utilidad y Energia.

Croatia: At a glance

Croatia is a sovereign country in Europe, with a total land area of approximately 55,974 sq km. The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became a federal independent communist state under the strong hand of Marshal TITO. Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands, along with a majority of Croatia's ethnic Serb population. Under UN supervision, the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998. The country joined NATO in April 2009 and the EU in July 2013.
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