Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

live 4.7 years longer

In Kazakhstan, the average life expectancy is 73 years (67 years for men, 77 years for women) as of 2022. In Croatia, that number is 77 years (74 years for men, 81 years for women) as of 2022.

be 16.2% more likely to be obese

In Kazakhstan, 21.0% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Croatia, that number is 24.4% of people as of 2016.

Economy

be 68.1% more likely to be unemployed

In Kazakhstan, 4.8% of adults are unemployed as of 2019. In Croatia, that number is 8.1% as of 2019.

be 4.3 times more likely to live below the poverty line

In Kazakhstan, 4.3% live below the poverty line as of 2018. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.3% as of 2018.

pay a 4.7 times higher top tax rate

Kazakhstan has a top tax rate of 10.0% as of 2016. In Croatia, the top tax rate is 47.2% as of 2016.

Life

be 20.0% less likely to die during childbirth

In Kazakhstan, approximately 10.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2017. In Croatia, 8.0 women do as of 2017.

be 54.4% less likely to die during infancy

In Kazakhstan, approximately 19.2 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 43.8% fewer children

In Kazakhstan, there are approximately 15.4 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022. In Croatia, there are 8.7 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022.

Expenditures

spend 34.5% more on education

Kazakhstan spends 2.9% of its total GDP on education as of 2019. Croatia spends 3.9% of total GDP on education as of 2017.

spend 2.5 times more on healthcare

Kazakhstan spends 2.8% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2019. In Croatia, that number is 7.0% of GDP as of 2019.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: Croatia Tax Administration, The World Factbook, Tax Committee of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

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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