Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

be 92.9% less likely to be living with HIV/AIDS

In Jamaica, 1.4% of people are living with AIDS/HIV as of 2020. In Croatia, that number is 0.1% of people as of 2020.

live 1.5 years longer

In Jamaica, the average life expectancy is 76 years (74 years for men, 78 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 3.0 times more money

Jamaica has a GDP per capita of $8,700 as of 2020, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $26,500 as of 2020.

pay a 88.8% higher top tax rate

Jamaica has a top tax rate of 25.0% as of 2016. In Croatia, the top tax rate is 47.2% as of 2016.

Life

be 90.0% less likely to die during childbirth

In Jamaica, approximately 80.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2017. In Croatia, 8.0 women do as of 2017.

be 12.0% more likely to be literate

In Jamaica, the literacy rate is 88.7% as of 2015. In Croatia, it is 99.3% as of 2015.

be 21.8% less likely to die during infancy

In Jamaica, approximately 11.2 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 45.6% fewer children

In Jamaica, there are approximately 15.9 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022. In Croatia, there are 8.7 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022.

Basic Needs

be 41.8% more likely to have internet access

In Jamaica, approximately 55.0% of the population has internet access as of 2019. In Croatia, about 78.0% do as of 2020.

Expenditures

spend 27.8% less on education

Jamaica spends 5.4% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Croatia spends 3.9% of total GDP on education as of 2017.

spend 14.8% more on healthcare

Jamaica spends 6.1% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2019. In Croatia, that number is 7.0% of GDP as of 2019.

Geography

see 5.7 times more coastline

Jamaica has a total of 1,022 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, Tax Admministration of Jamaica.

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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