Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

be 30.5% less likely to be obese

In Qatar, 35.1% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Croatia, that number is 24.4% of people as of 2016.

live 2.6 years less

In Qatar, the average life expectancy is 80 years (78 years for men, 82 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 68.9% less money

Qatar has a GDP per capita of $85,300 as of 2020, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $26,500 as of 2020.

Life

be 32.0% more likely to die during infancy

In Qatar, approximately 6.6 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 22.0% less likely to have internet access

In Qatar, approximately 100.0% of the population has internet access as of 2020. In Croatia, about 78.0% do as of 2020.

Expenditures

spend 21.9% more on education

Qatar spends 3.2% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Croatia spends 3.9% of total GDP on education as of 2017.

spend 2.4 times more on healthcare

Qatar spends 2.9% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2019. In Croatia, that number is 7.0% of GDP as of 2019.

Geography

see 10.4 times more coastline

Qatar has a total of 563 km of coastline. In Croatia, that number is 5,835 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

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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