Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

live 5.3 years less

In Spain, the average life expectancy is 83 years (80 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.

Economy

be 50.1% less likely to be unemployed

In Spain, 12.1% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Croatia, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

be 10.9% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Spain, 20.2% live below the poverty line as of 2022. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.0% as of 2021.

make 11.0% less money

Spain has a GDP per capita of $46,400 as of 2023, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

Life

have 19.7% more children

In Spain, there are approximately 7.1 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Croatia, there are 8.5 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

be 66.7% more likely to die during childbirth

In Spain, approximately 3.0 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 Spain, 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.

Basic Needs

be 13.8% less likely to have internet access

In Spain, approximately 94.0% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Croatia, about 81.0% do as of 2021.

Expenditures

spend 27.1% less on healthcare

Spain spends 10.7% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Croatia, that number is 7.8% of GDP as of 2020.

spend 19.6% more on education

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

Geography

see 17.5% more coastline

Spain has a total of 4,964 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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