Where is it better to live in Croatia or in Brunei?
To answer the question - which country - Croatia or Brunei, is more comfortable for living, let’s compare different constituents which make the standard of living:
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Perhaps, it’s difficult to argue that it’s better to live in a rich country than in a poor one. As of 2024 year data, the basic indicator of the economic development - GDP by purchasing power parity per capita - was:
● In Croatia - 48,6 thousand dollars,
● In Brunei - 89,2 thousand dollars.
Thus, according to the gross production per one person, Brunei leaves Croatia behind by %.
Let’s compare the data about average labor level pay in both countries.
The average gross salary (before the taxes and other mandatory fees) is:
● in Croatia - 1,556 EUR (about 17000 US$);
● in Brunei - 4,780 Brunei dollars (about 3500 US$).
Where are the prices lower? up↑
The average GDP gap per capita is narrowed down by the difference in cost of living. According to the statistics of the data base Numbeo, at the beginning of 2025 year, Croatia is a cheaper country.
The price level in Croatia for basic goods and services (including food, consumer goods, transport, mobile connection and utility bills) is on average % lower than in Brunei. In other words, at the current exchange rate 1000 dollars in Brunei will have the same purchasing power as dollars in Croatia.
Where is the crime rate lower? up↑
One can evaluate the general level of criminal situation with the help of “crime rate”. This indicator is calculated by the portal Numbeo, which specializes in rating scores of different life aspects in all the world regions and shows how safe it is to live in the country from a risk of becoming a victim of lawbreakers (the higher the crime rate is, the higher the risk is). As of 2025 year, the crime rate is:
● in Croatia - 25.5;
● in Brunei - 29.3
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To estimate the population law-abidingness and law enforcement activity, let’s pay attention to the statics of premeditated murders and to the data about the number of Croats and Bruneians, being imprisoned.
Yearly out of 100 thousand people, murders kill:
● in Croatia - 0.77 people;
● in Brunei - 0.49 people
***As of 2023 year, in prisons and criminal camps the number of inmates is:
● in Croatia - 3.41 thousand, or 84 prisoners per 100,000 people;
● in Brunei - 841, or 186 prisoners per 100,000 people
Overall, they kill more often in Croatia, one stays behind the bars more often in Brunei.
Where do people get sick less and live longer? up↑
The life quality is greatly defined by how long the people live. According to the latest data, the life expectancy is:
● in Croatia - 78.6 years (75.5 years among men and 81.6 years among women)
● in Brunei - 74.3 years (73.4 years among men and 75.4 years among women)
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To get an idea about the nation’s health and the system of health care, one should look at the spread of dangerous diseases in the country.
The number of people infected by tuberculosis is: ● in Croatia - 330 people (8 per 100,000 people); ● in Brunei - 280 people (64 per 100,000 people)
The cancer situation is the following: ● in Croatia per 100 000 people yearly one finds 290.8 new cases of the disease and registers 133.3 lethal cases; ● in Brunei per 100k people every year one fixes 224 of newly infected people and 107.8 lethal cases from cancer. We should not judge about the quality of medicine only by the number of cancer cases, we should look at the ratio between the number of new cases and the number of cancer deaths (the lower it is, the higher the rate of the cured ones is; consequently, the better the health care system works). In the countries under consideration, we see the following ratio between the newly-infected and the dead: ● in Croatia - ; ● in Brunei - Where do people drink and smoke less? up↑ It’s considered that It’s more comfortable to live in that country where people are less exposed to bad habits. The following WHO data show that the situation with the alcohol consumption (pure alcohol) runs as this: ● in Croatia - 9.2 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 14.7 litres per every man and 4.2 litres per every woman); ● in Brunei - 0.5 liters per every person older 15 years old (about 0.7 litres per every man and 0.2 litres per every woman) How noticeable are the differences in alcoholic beverages of the Croats and the Bruneians? ● in Croatia, in terms of pure alcohol, beer accounts for 39.5% % of consumption, wine accounts for 44.8% of consumption, strong drinks (vodka and cognac, etc.) account for 15.4%;
● in Brunei beer accounts for 89.8% from the total amount of alcohol consumption, wine accounts for 2.3%, strong drinks - 7.2%
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Addiction to smoking in the countries under consideration is seen like that:
● in Croatia there are 37 % of active smokers among the adults (36,7 % of adult males and 37,3 % of adult females smoke there);
● in Brunei 16,4 % of adult population smoke on a constant base (30,7 % of men and 2,2 % of women)
Where do people have more reasons to be satisfied with their lives? up↑
Perhaps, it’s very difficult to make up an indicator, with the help of which one can define how much the people of this or that country are satisfied by their lives. Nevertheless, there have been a couple of researches.
There is an overall index, is used by UNO - Human Development Index (HDI). This index considers various reasons why citizens feel comfortable. According to 2022 data, HDI in Croatia is 0.858; in Brunei - 0.829.
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To indirectly evaluate how much the people are satisfied with their lives, one can consider the number of suicides. It comes logically that the better the lives of the people are arranged, the fewer reasons for the suicides there are. In the countries under consideration, per 100 000 people there are:
● in Croatia - 11,0 suicides (17,7 among men and 5,1 among women) ;
● in Brunei - 2,5 suicides (4,2 among men and 0,8 among women)
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