Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

be 92.3% less likely to be living with HIV/AIDS

In Guyana, 1.3% of people are living with AIDS/HIV as of 2020. In Croatia, that number is 0.1% of people as of 2020.

live 5.3 years longer

In Guyana, the average life expectancy is 72 years (70 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 20.8% more likely to be obese

In Guyana, 20.2% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Croatia, that number is 24.4% of people as of 2016.

Economy

be 51.2% less likely to be unemployed

In Guyana, 12.4% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Croatia, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

be 48.6% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Guyana, 35.0% live below the poverty line as of 2006. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.0% as of 2021.

make 17.1% less money

Guyana has a GDP per capita of $49,800 as of 2023, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

Life

be 95.5% less likely to die during childbirth

In Guyana, approximately 112.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Croatia, 5.0 women do as of 2020.

be 11.9% more likely to be literate

In Guyana, the literacy rate is 88.8% as of 2021. In Croatia, it is 99.4% as of 2021.

be 60.5% less likely to die during infancy

In Guyana, approximately 22.1 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 49.1% fewer children

In Guyana, there are approximately 16.7 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Croatia, there are 8.5 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Expenditures

spend 22.2% more on education

Guyana spends 4.5% of its total GDP on education as of 2018. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

spend 41.8% more on healthcare

Guyana spends 5.5% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Croatia, that number is 7.8% of GDP as of 2020.

Geography

see 12.7 times more coastline

Guyana has a total of 459 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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