Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Croatia instead of Turks and Caicos Islands, you would:

Economy

make 27.7% less money

Turks and Caicos Islands has a GDP per capita of $37,507 as of 2024, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $27,104 as of 2025.

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Life

be 36.7% more likely to die during infancy

In Turks and Caicos Islands, approximately 3.0 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 21.3% fewer children

In Turks and Caicos Islands, there are approximately 10.5 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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Basic Needs

be 10.6% less likely to have internet access

In Turks and Caicos Islands, approximately 93.5% of the population has internet access as of 2022. In Croatia, about 83.6% do as of 2024.

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Expenditures

spend 38.6% more on education

Turks and Caicos Islands spends 3.0% of its total GDP on education as of 2024. Croatia spends 4.1% of total GDP on education as of 2021.

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Geography

see 15.0 times more coastline

Turks and Caicos Islands has a total of 389 km of coastline. In Croatia, that number is 5,835 km.

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Safety

be 99.1% less likely to be murdered

Turks and Caicos Islands has a homicide rate of 76.3 per 100,000 people as of 2022. In Croatia, that number is 0.7 per 100,000 as of 2023.

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Sources: World Bank (2021–2025), The World Factbook (2022). 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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