Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Croatia instead of Western Sahara, you would:

Health

live 12.7 years longer

In Western Sahara, the average life expectancy is 64 years (62 years for men, 67 years for women) as of 2020. In Croatia, that number is 77 years (74 years for men, 81 years for women) as of 2022.

Economy

make 16.5 times more money

Western Sahara has a GDP per capita of $2,500 as of 2007, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $41,300 as of 2023.

Life

be 81.8% less likely to die during infancy

In Western Sahara, approximately 47.9 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2020. In Croatia, on the other hand, 8.7 children do as of 2022.

have 69.6% fewer children

In Western Sahara, there are approximately 28.0 babies per 1,000 people as of 2020. In Croatia, there are 8.5 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Geography

see 5.3 times more coastline

Western Sahara has a total of 1,110 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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