Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Croatia instead of Sri Lanka, you would:

Health

be 4.7 times more likely to be obese

In Sri Lanka, 5.2% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Croatia, that number is 24.4% of people as of 2016.

Economy

make 3.2 times more money

Sri Lanka has a GDP per capita of $13,000 as of 2023, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

be 25.9% more likely to live below the poverty line

In Sri Lanka, 14.3% live below the poverty line as of 2019. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.0% as of 2021.

pay a 3.1 times higher top tax rate

Sri Lanka has a top tax rate of 15.0% as of 2016. In Croatia, the top tax rate is 47.2% as of 2016.

Life

be 82.8% less likely to die during childbirth

In Sri Lanka, approximately 29.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Croatia, 5.0 women do as of 2020.

have 41.4% fewer children

In Sri Lanka, there are approximately 14.5 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 20.9% more likely to have internet access

In Sri Lanka, approximately 67.0% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Croatia, about 81.0% do as of 2021.

Expenditures

spend 2.9 times more on education

Sri Lanka spends 1.9% of its total GDP on education as of 2019. Croatia spends 5.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

spend 90.2% more on healthcare

Sri Lanka spends 4.1% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Croatia, that number is 7.8% of GDP as of 2020.

Geography

see 4.4 times more coastline

Sri Lanka has a total of 1,340 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, Sri Lanka Inland Revenue Department.

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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