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If you lived in Croatia instead of Rhode Island, you would:

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be 13.6% more likely to be unemployed

In Rhode Island, 4.4% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Croatia, that number is 5.0% as of 2025.

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be 97.1% more likely to live below the poverty line

In Rhode Island, 10.3% live below the poverty line as of 2023. In Croatia, however, that number is 20.3% as of 2024.

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make 52.4% less money

Rhode Island has a GDP per capita of $56,938 as of 2024, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $27,104 as of 2025.

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Sources: World Bank (2024–2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). 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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