Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Croatia instead of Dominican Republic, you would:

Health

live 4.7 years longer

In Dominican Republic, the average life expectancy is 73 years (71 years for men, 74 years for women) as of 2022. In Croatia, that number is 77 years (74 years for men, 81 years for women) as of 2022.

be 11.6% less likely to be obese

In Dominican Republic, 27.6% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Croatia, that number is 24.4% of people as of 2016.

Economy

make 78.8% more money

Dominican Republic has a GDP per capita of $23,100 as of 2023, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

be 24.7% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Dominican Republic, 23.9% live below the poverty line as of 2021. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.0% as of 2021.

pay a 88.8% higher top tax rate

Dominican Republic has a top tax rate of 25.0% as of 2016. In Croatia, the top tax rate is 47.2% as of 2016.

Life

be 95.3% less likely to die during childbirth

In Dominican Republic, approximately 107.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Croatia, 5.0 women do as of 2020.

be 58.7% less likely to die during infancy

In Dominican Republic, approximately 21.2 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 50.9% fewer children

In Dominican Republic, there are approximately 17.3 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Croatia, there are 8.5 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Expenditures

spend 19.6% more on education

Dominican Republic spends 4.6% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

spend 59.2% more on healthcare

Dominican Republic spends 4.9% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Croatia, that number is 7.8% of GDP as of 2020.

Geography

see 4.5 times more coastline

Dominican Republic has a total of 1,288 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, Direccion General de Impuestos Internos.

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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