Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

live 2.0 years longer

In Iran, the average life expectancy is 75 years (74 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

make 2.5 times more money

Iran has a GDP per capita of $16,200 as of 2023, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

be 33.4% less likely to be unemployed

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

Life

be 77.3% less likely to die during childbirth

In Iran, approximately 22.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Croatia, 5.0 women do as of 2020.

be 12.1% more likely to be literate

In Iran, the literacy rate is 88.7% as of 2021. In Croatia, it is 99.4% as of 2021.

be 41.1% less likely to die during infancy

In Iran, approximately 14.8 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 40.6% fewer children

In Iran, there are approximately 14.3 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Croatia, there are 8.5 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Expenditures

spend 52.8% more on education

Iran spends 3.6% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

spend 47.2% more on healthcare

Iran spends 5.3% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Croatia, that number is 7.8% of GDP as of 2020.

Geography

see 2.4 times more coastline

Iran has a total of 2,440 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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