Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Economy

make 15.4% more money

Panama has a GDP per capita of $35,800 as of 2023, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

be 16.3% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Panama, 21.5% live below the poverty line as of 2019. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.0% as of 2021.

pay a 88.8% higher top tax rate

Panama has a top tax rate of 25.0% as of 2016. In Croatia, the top tax rate is 47.2% as of 2016.

Life

be 90.0% less likely to die during childbirth

In Panama, approximately 50.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Croatia, 5.0 women do as of 2020.

be 46.8% less likely to die during infancy

In Panama, approximately 16.4 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 51.1% fewer children

In Panama, there are approximately 17.4 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 19.1% more likely to have internet access

In Panama, approximately 68.0% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Croatia, about 81.0% do as of 2021.

Expenditures

spend 19.6% less on healthcare

Panama spends 9.7% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Croatia, that number is 7.8% of GDP as of 2020.

spend 41.0% more on education

Panama spends 3.9% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

Geography

see 2.3 times more coastline

Panama has a total of 2,490 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, General Directorate of Revenues, Panama.

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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