Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

live 1.4 years longer

In Lithuania, the average life expectancy is 76 years (70 years for men, 81 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

be 12.9% less likely to be unemployed

In Lithuania, 7.0% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Croatia, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

be 13.9% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Lithuania, 20.9% live below the poverty line as of 2021. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.0% as of 2021.

make 10.6% less money

Lithuania has a GDP per capita of $46,200 as of 2023, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

pay a 3.1 times higher top tax rate

Lithuania 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 44.4% less likely to die during childbirth

In Lithuania, approximately 9.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Croatia, 5.0 women do as of 2020.

be 2.4 times more likely to die during infancy

In Lithuania, approximately 3.6 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.

Basic Needs

be 17.2% less likely to have internet access

In Lithuania, approximately 97.8% of the population has internet access as of 2022. In Croatia, about 81.0% do as of 2021.

Expenditures

spend 37.5% more on education

Lithuania spends 4.0% of its total GDP on education as of 2019. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

Geography

see 64.8 times more coastline

Lithuania has a total of 90 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, State Tax Inspectorate.

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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