Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Croatia instead of Hong Kong, you would:

Health

live 6.4 years less

In Hong Kong, the average life expectancy is 84 years (81 years for men, 86 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

make 52.8% less money

Hong Kong has a GDP per capita of $56,200 as of 2020, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $26,500 as of 2020.

be 2.8 times more likely to be unemployed

In Hong Kong, 2.9% of adults are unemployed as of 2019. In Croatia, that number is 8.1% as of 2019.

pay a 3.1 times higher top tax rate

Hong Kong 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 3.4 times more likely to die during infancy

In Hong Kong, 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 15.2% less likely to have internet access

In Hong Kong, approximately 92.0% of the population has internet access as of 2020. In Croatia, about 78.0% do as of 2020.

Expenditures

spend 11.4% less on education

Hong Kong spends 4.4% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Croatia spends 3.9% of total GDP on education as of 2017.

Geography

see 8.0 times more coastline

Hong Kong has a total of 733 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, Inland Revenue Department, Hong Kong.

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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