Croatia: 5,835 km (2026 edition) · Serbia: 0 km (2026 edition)

Serbia’s highest peak towers 338 m above Croatia’s

Croatia: 1,831 m (2026 edition) · Serbia: 2,169 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 38% of Serbia, versus 26% of Croatia

Croatia: 26.2% (2024) · Serbia: 38.1% (2024)

Serbia has 69% more people than Croatia

Croatia: 3.88 million (2025) · Serbia: 6.55 million (2025)

Serbia is 8% more densely populated than Croatia

Croatia: 69 per km² (2025) · Serbia: 75 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Croatia is 0.89 years older than in Serbia

Croatia: 44.8 years (2023) · Serbia: 43.9 years (2023)

Women in Serbia have 0.2 more children on average than in Croatia

Croatia: 1.46 children per woman (2024) · Serbia: 1.64 children per woman (2024)

24% of people in Croatia are 65 or older, versus 23% in Serbia

Croatia: 23.6% (2025) · Serbia: 23.1% (2025)

Croatia: 7.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Serbia: no data

Croatia has produced 2.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Serbia none

Croatia: 2.6 (2026) · Serbia: 0 (2026)

Croatia and Serbia are practically level

Croatia: 1 (2026) · Serbia: 1 (2026)

Croatia’s economy is 5% larger than Serbia’s

Croatia: $105 billion (2025) · Serbia: $100 billion (2025)

Croatia produces 50% more per person than Serbia

Croatia: Int$50,946 (2025) · Serbia: Int$33,910 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Serbia than in Croatia (Gini 2.7 points higher)

Croatia: 30.1 (2023) · Serbia: 32.8 (2023)

1.1% of people in Serbia live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.3% in Croatia

Croatia: 0.3% (2023) · Serbia: 1.1% (2023)

Unemployment is 7.1% in Serbia, versus 5.0% in Croatia

Croatia: 5% (2025) · Serbia: 7.1% (2025)

Serbia spends 2.8% of its GDP on the military, Croatia 2.0%

Croatia: 2% (2025) · Serbia: 2.8% (2025)

Serbia’s central government collects 24% of GDP in tax, Croatia’s 21%

Croatia: 21.2% (2023) · Serbia: 23.9% (2022)

Croatia’s price level (US = 100) is 1.2× Serbia’s

Croatia: 53% (2025) · Serbia: 45% (2025)

Croatia spends 57% more on health per person than Serbia

Croatia: $1,548 (2023) · Serbia: $984 (2023)

A baby in Serbia is 12% more likely to die before turning one than in Croatia

Croatia: 4.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Serbia: 4.6 per 1,000 (2024)

Croatia has 26% more doctors per person than Serbia

Croatia: 3.9 per 1,000 (2022) · Serbia: 3.1 per 1,000 (2022)

Serbia has 3% more hospital beds per person than Croatia

Croatia: 5.6 per 1,000 (2023) · Serbia: 5.8 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Croatia is 18% higher than in Serbia

Croatia: 11.9 per 100k (2023) · Serbia: 10.1 per 100k (2023)

36% of adults in Croatia are obese, versus 26% in Serbia

Croatia: 36.5% (2024) · Serbia: 25.6% (2024)

40% of adults in Serbia smoke, versus 34% in Croatia

Croatia: 34.4% (2024) · Serbia: 39.7% (2024)

People in Serbia rate their lives 0.68 points higher than in Croatia

Croatia: 6.01 (2025) · Serbia: 6.69 (2025)

Adults in Serbia drink 3% more alcohol than in Croatia

Croatia: 10.9 litres (2023) · Serbia: 11.2 litres (2023)

Croatia has 18% more meat per person than Serbia

Croatia: 99.7 kg (2023) · Serbia: 84.2 kg (2023)

Serbia has 431 kcal more food per person per day than Croatia

Croatia: 3,448 kcal (2023) · Serbia: 3,879 kcal (2023)

Workers in Serbia put in 21 more hours a year than in Croatia

Croatia: 1,974 hours (2023) · Serbia: 1,995 hours (2023)

Adults in Croatia went to school 0.45 years longer than in Serbia

Croatia: 12.1 years (2023) · Serbia: 11.6 years (2023)

Croatia welcomed 11 times as many tourists per resident as Serbia (2019)

Croatia: 3.97 (2022) · Serbia: 0.36 (2024)

Croatia has 5 more World Heritage sites than Serbia (10 against 5)

Croatia: 10 (2026) · Serbia: 5 (2026)

Croatia has won 60 Olympic medals, Serbia 28

Croatia: 60 (2026 edition) · Serbia: 28 (2026 edition)

88% of people in Serbia are online, versus 84% in Croatia

Croatia: 84% (2024) · Serbia: 88% (2024)

Home internet in Croatia is 15% faster than in Serbia

Croatia: 193 Mbps (2026) · Serbia: 168 Mbps (2026)

Croatia and Serbia are practically level

Croatia: 100% (2024) · Serbia: 100% (2024)

63% of people in Serbia live in cities, versus 58% in Croatia

Croatia: 58% (2025) · Serbia: 63% (2025)

Serbia has 124 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Croatia 122

Croatia: 122 (2024) · Serbia: 124 (2024)

Serbia’s railway network is 28% longer than Croatia’s

Croatia: 2,617 km (2021) · Serbia: 3,348 km (2021)

Airlines from Serbia fly 37% more passengers per resident than those from Croatia

Croatia: 0.43 (2023) · Serbia: 0.59 (2023)

Forest covers 39% of Serbia, but only 35% of Croatia

Croatia: 34.8% (2024) · Serbia: 39.2% (2024)

The average person in Serbia emits 31% more CO₂ than someone in Croatia

Croatia: 4.8 t (2024) · Serbia: 6.2 t (2024)

76% of Croatia’s electricity is renewable, versus 28% in Serbia

Croatia: 76.3% (2025) · Serbia: 27.8% (2025)

The air in Serbia carries 21% more fine dust than in Croatia

Croatia: 14.6 µg/m³ (2024) · Serbia: 17.6 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 2 times as likely to be murdered in Serbia as in Croatia

Croatia: 0.7 per 100k (2023) · Serbia: 1.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Croatia are 7% deadlier than in Serbia

Croatia: 12.3 per 100k (2023) · Serbia: 11.5 per 100k (2023)

Croatia is on average 1.0 °C warmer than Serbia

Croatia: 13.1°C (2016–2025 avg) · Serbia: 12°C (2016–2025 avg)

Croatia gets 39% more rain than Serbia

Croatia: 1,086 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Serbia: 782 mm (2016–2025 avg)