Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

be 15.1% more likely to be obese

In Estonia, 21.2% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Croatia, that number is 24.4% of people as of 2016.

Economy

be 15.7% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Estonia, 21.7% live below the poverty line as of 2018. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.3% as of 2018.

make 25.6% less money

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

be 63.4% more likely to be unemployed

In Estonia, 4.9% of adults are unemployed as of 2019. In Croatia, that number is 8.1% as of 2019.

pay a 2.4 times higher top tax rate

Estonia has a top tax rate of 20.0% as of 2016. In Croatia, the top tax rate is 47.2% as of 2016.

Life

be 2.6 times more likely to die during infancy

In Estonia, approximately 3.4 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 18.8% less likely to have internet access

In Estonia, approximately 96.1% of the population has internet access as of 2022. In Croatia, about 78.0% do as of 2020.

Expenditures

spend 25.0% less on education

Estonia spends 5.2% of its total GDP on education as of 2018. Croatia spends 3.9% of total GDP on education as of 2017.

Geography

see 53.8% more coastline

Estonia has a total of 3,794 km of coastline. In Croatia, that number is 5,835 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: Estonian Tax and Customs Board, The World Factbook, Croatia Tax Administration.

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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