Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

be 12.5% less likely to be obese

In Dominica, 27.9% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Croatia, that number is 24.4% of people as of 2016.

live 1.0 years less

In Dominica, 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

make 2.6 times more money

Dominica has a GDP per capita of $15,900 as of 2023, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

be 73.7% less likely to be unemployed

In Dominica, 23.0% of adults are unemployed as of 2000. In Croatia, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

be 37.9% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Dominica, 29.0% live below the poverty line as of 2009. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.0% as of 2021.

Life

be 22.4% less likely to die during infancy

In Dominica, approximately 11.3 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 36.1% fewer children

In Dominica, there are approximately 13.3 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Croatia, there are 8.5 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Expenditures

spend 36.8% more on healthcare

Dominica spends 5.7% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Croatia, that number is 7.8% of GDP as of 2020.

Geography

see 39.4 times more coastline

Dominica has a total of 148 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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