Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

live 1.7 years longer

In Bulgaria, the average life expectancy is 76 years (72 years for men, 79 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 24.0% more money

Bulgaria has a GDP per capita of $33,300 as of 2023, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

be 12.6% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Bulgaria, 20.6% live below the poverty line as of 2022. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.0% as of 2021.

be 40.9% more likely to be unemployed

In Bulgaria, 4.3% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Croatia, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

pay a 4.7 times higher top tax rate

Bulgaria has a top tax rate of 10.0% as of 2016. In Croatia, the top tax rate is 47.2% as of 2016.

Life

be 28.6% less likely to die during childbirth

In Bulgaria, approximately 7.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Croatia, 5.0 women do as of 2020.

Expenditures

spend 37.5% more on education

Bulgaria spends 4.0% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

Geography

see 16.5 times more coastline

Bulgaria has a total of 354 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, National Revenue Agency, Bulgaria.

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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