Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Croatia instead of Puerto Rico, you would:

Health

live 4.5 years less

In Puerto Rico, the average life expectancy is 82 years (78 years for men, 85 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

be 25.3% less likely to be unemployed

In Puerto Rico, 10.8% of adults are unemployed as of 2017. In Croatia, that number is 8.1% as of 2019.

make 20.7% less money

Puerto Rico has a GDP per capita of $33,400 as of 2020, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $26,500 as of 2020.

pay a 43.0% higher top tax rate

Puerto Rico has a top tax rate of 33.0% as of 2016. In Croatia, the top tax rate is 47.2% as of 2016.

Life

be 61.9% less likely to die during childbirth

In Puerto Rico, approximately 21.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2017. In Croatia, 8.0 women do as of 2017.

be 44.7% more likely to die during infancy

In Puerto Rico, approximately 6.0 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.

Expenditures

spend 36.1% less on education

Puerto Rico spends 6.1% of its total GDP on education as of 2014. Croatia spends 3.9% of total GDP on education as of 2017.

Geography

see 11.6 times more coastline

Puerto Rico has a total of 501 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, Puerto Rican Department of Treasury.

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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