Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Economy

make 14.5% less money

Hungary has a GDP per capita of $31,000 as of 2020, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $26,500 as of 2020.

be 2.3 times more likely to be unemployed

In Hungary, 3.5% of adults are unemployed as of 2019. In Croatia, that number is 8.1% as of 2019.

be 48.8% more likely to live below the poverty line

In Hungary, 12.3% live below the poverty line as of 2018. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.3% as of 2018.

pay a 3.1 times higher top tax rate

Hungary 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 33.3% less likely to die during childbirth

In Hungary, approximately 12.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2017. In Croatia, 8.0 women do as of 2017.

be 89.2% more likely to die during infancy

In Hungary, approximately 4.6 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 12.7% less likely to have internet access

In Hungary, approximately 89.3% of the population has internet access as of 2022. In Croatia, about 78.0% do as of 2020.

Expenditures

spend 15.2% less on education

Hungary spends 4.6% of its total GDP on education as of 2018. Croatia spends 3.9% of total GDP on education as of 2017.

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

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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