Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

live 3.2 years longer

In Greenland, the average life expectancy is 74 years (71 years for men, 77 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

be 33.4% less likely to be unemployed

In Greenland, 9.1% of adults are unemployed as of 2015. In Croatia, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

make 39.4% less money

Greenland has a GDP per capita of $68,100 as of 2021, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

be 11.1% more likely to live below the poverty line

In Greenland, 16.2% live below the poverty line as of 2015. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.0% as of 2021.

Life

have 37.0% fewer children

In Greenland, there are approximately 13.5 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Croatia, there are 8.5 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Basic Needs

be 16.5% more likely to have internet access

In Greenland, approximately 69.5% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Croatia, about 81.0% do as of 2021.

Expenditures

spend 46.1% less on education

Greenland spends 10.2% of its total GDP on education as of 2019. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

Geography

see 86.8% less coastline

Greenland has a total of 44,087 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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