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title: "Is Croatia a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Croatia (Zagreb): 121.3 Mbps internet, safety 96/100, healthcare 76/100 — essentials ≈ $1,109/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/croatia/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 46/167

# Is 🇭🇷 Croatia (Zagreb) a good place to live?

Quality score **75/100** against essentials of **$1,109/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 49 121.3 Mbps median broadband, 83.6% online

Safety 96 0.7 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 76 UHC service coverage 76/100 (2023)

Air quality 80 PM2.5 13.8 µg/m³ (2023)

## Beside the score, not inside it

Neither of these is part of the composite above, deliberately. Folding governance into a quality-of-life number would bury a political judgement where you could not see it or argue with it, and connection *price* is a different question from connection *speed* — somewhere fast and expensive and somewhere slow and cheap are different trade-offs, not one average.

- **Rule of law**: middling
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.38 · corruption control 0.15 · stability 0.58 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $7.8 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $7.36/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,109) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.8× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 2.7× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 4.5× | like royalty |

Essentials from the [Pint & Property basket](https://geo-parity.com/expenses/?tab=prices). Rank countries by your own priorities in the [interactive matrix](https://geo-parity.com/livability/).

🛂 **Digital Nomad Residence Permit** — income floor ≈ $2,870/month. [Visa finder →](https://geo-parity.com/nomad-visas/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇸🇰 Slovakia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/slovakia/) — quality 84.9, essentials $1,256/mo
- [🇧🇭 Bahrain](https://geo-parity.com/livability/bahrain/) — quality 61.3, essentials $910/mo
- [🇬🇭 Ghana](https://geo-parity.com/livability/ghana/) — quality 45, essentials $669/mo
- [🇱🇹 Lithuania](https://geo-parity.com/livability/lithuania/) — quality 83, essentials $1,217/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/croatia/) · [retiring in Croatia](https://geo-parity.com/fire/croatia/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Croatia a good place to live for remote workers?**: Croatia scores 75/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 121.3 Mbps, safety 96, healthcare 76, air quality 80; English not scored) — rank 46 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Croatia?**: Median fixed broadband is around 121.3 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Croatia?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,109/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (2.7× essentials).

Safety, healthcare and air quality are objective figures from the World Bank (homicide rate, life expectancy) and WHO (PM2.5); internet speed and English are curated. City variation is real — verify locally. Agents: GET /api/livability.json?budget=3000.

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Source: Geo-Parity — https://geo-parity.com/livability/croatia/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json