Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Economy

be 46.7% more likely to be unemployed

In Hungary, 4.1% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Croatia, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

be 48.8% more likely to live below the poverty line

In Hungary, 12.1% live below the poverty line as of 2021. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.0% as of 2021.

pay a 3.1 times higher top tax rate

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

Life

be 66.7% less likely to die during childbirth

In Hungary, approximately 15.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Croatia, 5.0 women do as of 2020.

be 89.2% more likely to die during infancy

In Hungary, approximately 4.6 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.

Expenditures

spend 14.6% more on education

Hungary spends 4.8% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: Croatia Tax Administration, The World Factbook, National Tax and Customs Administration of Hungary.

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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