Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

be 22.6% more likely to be obese

In Ecuador, 19.9% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Croatia, that number is 24.4% of people as of 2016.

Economy

make 2.9 times more money

Ecuador has a GDP per capita of $14,300 as of 2023, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

be 28.6% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Ecuador, 25.2% live below the poverty line as of 2022. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.0% as of 2021.

be 79.8% more likely to be unemployed

In Ecuador, 3.4% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Croatia, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

pay a 34.9% higher top tax rate

Ecuador has a top tax rate of 35.0% as of 2016. In Croatia, the top tax rate is 47.2% as of 2016.

Life

be 92.4% less likely to die during childbirth

In Ecuador, approximately 66.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Croatia, 5.0 women do as of 2020.

be 51.8% less likely to die during infancy

In Ecuador, approximately 18.1 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 52.0% fewer children

In Ecuador, there are approximately 17.7 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Croatia, there are 8.5 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Expenditures

spend 48.6% more on education

Ecuador spends 3.7% of its total GDP on education as of 2021. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

Geography

see 2.6 times more coastline

Ecuador has a total of 2,237 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, Servicio de Rentas Internas del Ecuador.

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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