Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Croatia instead of New Caledonia, you would:

Economy

be 55.2% less likely to be unemployed

In New Caledonia, 11.2% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Croatia, that number is 5.0% as of 2025.

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Life

have 40.8% fewer children

In New Caledonia, there are approximately 14.0 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Croatia, there are 8.3 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

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Geography

see 2.6 times more coastline

New Caledonia has a total of 2,254 km of coastline. In Croatia, that number is 5,835 km.

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Infrastructure

find 52.8% more home broadband

New Caledonia has 19.4 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2022. Croatia has 29.6 as of 2024.

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Environment

emit 71.7% less CO2

New Caledonia emits 17.1 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 (2022–2025), 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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