Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Croatia instead of Solomon Islands, you would:

Economy

make 15.3 times more money

Solomon Islands has a GDP per capita of $2,700 as of 2023, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

be 3.9 times more likely to be unemployed

In Solomon Islands, 1.6% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Croatia, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

be 41.7% more likely to live below the poverty line

In Solomon Islands, 12.7% live below the poverty line as of 2012. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.0% as of 2021.

Life

be 95.9% less likely to die during childbirth

In Solomon Islands, approximately 122.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Croatia, 5.0 women do as of 2020.

be 56.3% less likely to die during infancy

In Solomon Islands, approximately 20.0 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 62.6% fewer children

In Solomon Islands, there are approximately 22.7 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022. In Croatia, there are 8.5 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Basic Needs

be 31.6% more likely to have access to electricity

In Solomon Islands, approximately 76% of the population has electricity access as of 2022. In Croatia, 100% of the population do as of 2022.

be 2.2 times more likely to have internet access

In Solomon Islands, approximately 36.0% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Croatia, about 81.0% do as of 2021.

be 36.8% more likely to have access to improved drinking water

In Solomon Islands, approximately 73% of people have improved drinking water access (95% in urban areas, and 66% in rural areas) as of 2020. In Croatia, that number is 100% of people on average (100% in urban areas, and 100% in rural areas) as of 2020.

Expenditures

spend 57.0% less on education

Solomon Islands spends 12.8% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

spend 77.3% more on healthcare

Solomon Islands spends 4.4% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Croatia, that number is 7.8% of GDP as of 2020.

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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