Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Economy

make 76.5% more money

Macedonia has a GDP per capita of $23,400 as of 2023, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

be 53.7% less likely to be unemployed

In Macedonia, 13.1% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Croatia, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

be 17.4% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Macedonia, 21.8% live below the poverty line as of 2019. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.0% as of 2021.

pay a 4.7 times higher top tax rate

Macedonia 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 66.7% more likely to die during childbirth

In Macedonia, approximately 3.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Croatia, 5.0 women do as of 2020.

be 19.4% more likely to die during infancy

In Macedonia, approximately 7.3 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 16.7% fewer children

In Macedonia, there are approximately 10.2 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Croatia, there are 8.5 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: Croatia Tax Administration, The World Factbook, Public Revenue Office.

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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