Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

be 24.9% less likely to be obese

In Libya, 32.5% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Croatia, that number is 24.4% of people as of 2016.

Economy

make 2.3 times more money

Libya has a GDP per capita of $17,700 as of 2023, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

be 67.7% less likely to be unemployed

In Libya, 18.7% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Croatia, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

pay a 4.7 times higher top tax rate

Libya has a top tax rate of 10.0% as of 2016. In Croatia, the top tax rate is 47.2% as of 2016.

Life

be 93.1% less likely to die during childbirth

In Libya, approximately 72.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Croatia, 5.0 women do as of 2020.

be 22.1% less likely to die during infancy

In Libya, approximately 11.2 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 58.1% fewer children

In Libya, there are approximately 20.3 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 42.9% more likely to have access to electricity

In Libya, approximately 70% of the population has electricity access as of 2022. In Croatia, 100% of the population do as of 2022.

be 75.3% more likely to have internet access

In Libya, approximately 46.2% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Croatia, about 81.0% do as of 2021.

Geography

see 3.3 times more coastline

Libya has a total of 1,770 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, Ministry of Finance.

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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