Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

live 1.1 years less

In Slovakia, the average life expectancy is 78 years (75 years for men, 82 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 19.0% more likely to be obese

In Slovakia, 20.5% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Croatia, that number is 24.4% of people as of 2016.

Economy

be 31.4% more likely to live below the poverty line

In Slovakia, 13.7% live below the poverty line as of 2021. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.0% as of 2021.

pay a 88.8% higher top tax rate

Slovakia 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 81.3% more likely to die during infancy

In Slovakia, approximately 4.8 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 10.0% less likely to have internet access

In Slovakia, approximately 90.0% of the population has internet access as of 2022. In Croatia, about 81.0% do as of 2021.

Expenditures

spend 19.6% more on education

Slovakia spends 4.6% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: Croatia Tax Administration, The World Factbook, Tax Directorate, Slovakia.

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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