Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

live 1.5 years longer

In Romania, the average life expectancy is 76 years (72 years for men, 79 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 23.1% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Romania, 23.8% live below the poverty line as of 2018. In Croatia, however, that number is 18.3% as of 2018.

be 2.6 times more likely to be unemployed

In Romania, 3.1% of adults are unemployed as of 2019. In Croatia, that number is 8.1% as of 2019.

pay a 3.0 times higher top tax rate

Romania has a top tax rate of 16.0% as of 2016. In Croatia, the top tax rate is 47.2% as of 2016.

Life

be 57.9% less likely to die during childbirth

In Romania, approximately 19.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2017. In Croatia, 8.0 women do as of 2017.

be 49.7% more likely to die during infancy

In Romania, approximately 5.8 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 18.2% more on education

Romania spends 3.3% of its total GDP on education as of 2018. Croatia spends 3.9% of total GDP on education as of 2017.

spend 22.8% more on healthcare

Romania spends 5.7% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2019. In Croatia, that number is 7.0% of GDP as of 2019.

Geography

see 25.9 times more coastline

Romania has a total of 225 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, National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF).

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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