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

Health

live 2.6 years longer

In Seychelles, the average life expectancy is 76 years (72 years for men, 81 years for women) as of 2024. In Croatia, that number is 79 years (76 years for men, 82 years for women) as of 2024.

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see 2.3 times more spent on your healthcare

Seychelles spends $1,402 per person on healthcare as of 2023 (international dollars, adjusted for prices). Croatia spends $3,229 as of 2023.

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have 40.8% fewer doctors per person

Seychelles has 66.0 doctors per 10,000 people as of 2022. Croatia has 39.1 as of 2022.

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be 3.7 times more likely to die by suicide

Seychelles has a suicide rate of 4.3 per 100,000 people as of 2021. In Croatia, it is 15.7 per 100,000 as of 2021.

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Economy

make 39.4% more money

Seychelles has a GDP per capita of $19,449 as of 2025, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $27,104 as of 2025.

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Life

be 92.9% less likely to die during childbirth

In Seychelles, approximately 42.0 women die from pregnancy or childbirth per 100,000 live births as of 2023. In Croatia, 3.0 women do as of 2023.

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be 68.2% less likely to die during infancy

In Seychelles, approximately 12.9 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2024. In Croatia, on the other hand, 4.1 children do as of 2024.

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have 24.5% fewer children

In Seychelles, there are approximately 11.0 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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Expenditures

spend 59.6% more on healthcare

Seychelles spends 4.5% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2023. In Croatia, that number is 7.2% of GDP as of 2023.

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Geography

see 11.9 times more coastline

Seychelles has a total of 491 km of coastline. In Croatia, that number is 5,835 km.

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Safety

be 91.6% less likely to be murdered

Seychelles has a homicide rate of 8.0 per 100,000 people as of 2022. In Croatia, that number is 0.7 per 100,000 as of 2023.

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be 22.7% more likely to die in a road accident

In Seychelles, road accidents kill 6.6 people per 100,000 as of 2021. In Croatia, they kill 8.1 per 100,000 as of 2021.

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Environment

be 27.9% less likely to die from air pollution

In Seychelles, air pollution causes 43.0 deaths per 100,000 people as of 2019. In Croatia, it causes 31.0 as of 2019.

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emit 33.3% less CO2

Seychelles emits 7.2 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 (2021–2025), United Nations SDG Indicators (2019–2021), The World Factbook. How we calculate this

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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