Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Economy

be 20.4% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Guam, 23.0% live below the poverty line as of 2001. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.3% as of 2018.

make 25.6% less money

Guam has a GDP per capita of $35,600 as of 2016, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $26,500 as of 2020.

be 79.3% more likely to be unemployed

In Guam, 4.5% of adults are unemployed as of 2017. In Croatia, that number is 8.1% as of 2019.

Life

be 23.7% less likely to die during infancy

In Guam, approximately 11.5 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.

have 53.4% fewer children

In Guam, there are approximately 18.6 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022. In Croatia, there are 8.7 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022.

Geography

see 46.5 times more coastline

Guam has a total of 126 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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