Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Croatia instead of Virgin Islands, you would:

Health

live 1.8 years less

In Virgin Islands, the average life expectancy is 81 years (78 years for men, 84 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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Economy

be 56.3% less likely to be unemployed

In Virgin Islands, 11.4% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Croatia, that number is 5.0% as of 2025.

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make 38.8% less money

Virgin Islands has a GDP per capita of $44,321 as of 2022, while in Croatia, the GDP per capita is $27,104 as of 2025.

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Life

be 46.4% less likely to die during infancy

In Virgin Islands, approximately 7.7 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Croatia, on the other hand, 4.1 children do as of 2024.

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have 25.2% fewer children

In Virgin Islands, there are approximately 11.1 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 29.1% more likely to have internet access

In Virgin Islands, approximately 64.8% of the population has internet access as of 2022. In Croatia, about 83.6% do as of 2024.

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Geography

see 31.0 times more coastline

Virgin Islands has a total of 188 km of coastline. In Croatia, that number is 5,835 km.

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Infrastructure

find 2.9 times more home broadband

Virgin Islands has 10.1 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2022. Croatia has 29.6 as of 2024.

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Sources: World Bank (2022–2025), The World Factbook (2022). How we calculate this

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Croatia is 51.3% cheaper than Virgin Islands overall
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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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