Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Croatia instead of Hong Kong, you would:

Health

live 6.4 years less

In Hong Kong, the average life expectancy is 84 years (81 years for men, 86 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 35.9% less money

Hong Kong has a GDP per capita of $64,400 as of 2023, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

be 54.2% more likely to be unemployed

In Hong Kong, 3.9% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Croatia, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

pay a 3.1 times higher top tax rate

Hong Kong has a top tax rate of 15.0% as of 2016. In Croatia, the top tax rate is 47.2% as of 2016.

Life

have 11.8% more children

In Hong Kong, there are approximately 7.6 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Croatia, there are 8.5 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

be 3.4 times more likely to die during infancy

In Hong Kong, approximately 2.5 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.

Basic Needs

be 12.9% less likely to have internet access

In Hong Kong, approximately 93.0% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Croatia, about 81.0% do as of 2021.

Expenditures

spend 37.5% more on education

Hong Kong spends 4.0% of its total GDP on education as of 2021. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

Geography

see 8.0 times more coastline

Hong Kong has a total of 733 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, Inland Revenue Department, Hong Kong.

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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