Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

be 90.9% less likely to be living with HIV/AIDS

In Barbados, 1.1% of people are living with AIDS/HIV as of 2019. In Croatia, that number is 0.1% of people as of 2020.

live 1.3 years less

In Barbados, the average life expectancy is 79 years (76 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

make 2.4 times more money

Barbados has a GDP per capita of $17,400 as of 2023, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

be 23.8% less likely to be unemployed

In Barbados, 8.0% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Croatia, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

pay a 40.9% higher top tax rate

Barbados has a top tax rate of 33.5% as of 2016. In Croatia, the top tax rate is 47.2% as of 2016.

Life

be 87.2% less likely to die during childbirth

In Barbados, approximately 39.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Croatia, 5.0 women do as of 2020.

have 20.6% fewer children

In Barbados, there are approximately 10.7 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Croatia, there are 8.5 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Expenditures

spend 15.4% less on education

Barbados spends 6.5% of its total GDP on education as of 2021. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

Geography

see 60.2 times more coastline

Barbados has a total of 97 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, Ministry of Finance, Barbados.

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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