Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Croatia instead of British Virgin Islands, you would:

Health

live 1.5 years longer

In British Virgin Islands, the average life expectancy is 77 years (75 years for men, 80 years for women) as of 2024. In Croatia, that number is 79 years (76 years for men, 82 years for women) as of 2024.

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Life

be 64.0% less likely to die during infancy

In British Virgin Islands, approximately 11.4 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2024. In Croatia, on the other hand, 4.1 children do as of 2024.

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Expenditures

spend 29.0% more on education

British Virgin Islands spends 3.2% of its total GDP on education as of 2023. Croatia spends 4.1% of total GDP on education as of 2021.

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Geography

see 72.9 times more coastline

British Virgin Islands has a total of 80 km of coastline. In Croatia, that number is 5,835 km.

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Infrastructure

find 18.8% more home broadband

British Virgin Islands has 24.9 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2024. Croatia has 29.6 as of 2024.

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Environment

emit 2.1 times more CO2

British Virgin Islands emits 2.3 tonnes of CO2 per person each year as of 2024. Croatia emits 4.8 tonnes as of 2024.

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Sources: World Bank (2021–2024), The World Factbook. How we calculate this

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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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