Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Croatia instead of British Virgin Islands, you would:

Health

live 2.5 years less

In British Virgin Islands, the average life expectancy is 80 years (78 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 20.8% more money

British Virgin Islands has a GDP per capita of $34,200 as of 2017, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

be 2.1 times more likely to be unemployed

In British Virgin Islands, 2.9% of adults are unemployed as of 2015. In Croatia, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

Life

be 38.3% less likely to die during infancy

In British Virgin Islands, approximately 14.2 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 22.0% fewer children

In British Virgin Islands, there are approximately 10.9 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Croatia, there are 8.5 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Expenditures

spend 2.1 times more on education

British Virgin Islands spends 2.6% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

Geography

see 72.9 times more coastline

British Virgin Islands has a total of 80 km of coastline. In Croatia, that number is 5,835 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

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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