Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

live 2.6 years longer

In Palau, the average life expectancy is 75 years (71 years for men, 78 years for women) as of 2022. In Croatia, that number is 77 years (74 years for men, 81 years for women) as of 2022.

be 55.9% less likely to be obese

In Palau, 55.3% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Croatia, that number is 24.4% of people as of 2016.

Economy

make 2.6 times more money

Palau has a GDP per capita of $15,800 as of 2023, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

be 27.7% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Palau, 24.9% live below the poverty line as of 2006. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.0% as of 2021.

be 3.6 times more likely to be unemployed

In Palau, 1.7% of adults are unemployed as of 2015. In Croatia, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

Life

be 22.5% less likely to die during infancy

In Palau, approximately 11.3 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 26.7% fewer children

In Palau, there are approximately 11.6 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 2.2 times more likely to have internet access

In Palau, approximately 37.2% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Croatia, about 81.0% do as of 2021.

Expenditures

spend 19.1% less on education

Palau spends 6.8% of its total GDP on education as of 2019. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

spend 57.6% less on healthcare

Palau spends 18.4% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Croatia, that number is 7.8% of GDP as of 2020.

Geography

see 3.8 times more coastline

Palau has a total of 1,519 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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