Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

live 4.3 years less

In Portugal, the average life expectancy is 82 years (78 years for men, 85 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 17.3% more likely to be obese

In Portugal, 20.8% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Croatia, that number is 24.4% of people as of 2016.

Economy

pay a 16.5% lower top tax rate

Portugal has a top tax rate of 56.5% as of 2016. In Croatia, the top tax rate is 47.2% as of 2016.

Life

be 58.3% less likely to die during childbirth

In Portugal, approximately 12.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Croatia, 5.0 women do as of 2020.

be 3.5 times more likely to die during infancy

In Portugal, approximately 2.5 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.

Expenditures

spend 26.4% less on healthcare

Portugal spends 10.6% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Croatia, that number is 7.8% of GDP as of 2020.

spend 10.0% more on education

Portugal spends 5.0% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

Geography

see 3.3 times more coastline

Portugal has a total of 1,793 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, Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira.

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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