Facts about the Nation Croatia, (from the CIA The World factbook - per ca. 2004) :

	Croatia	Denmark
Area	56,542 sq km 5,835 km (mainland 1,777 km, islands 4,058 km)	43,094 sq km Coastline: 7,314 km
Terrain	geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border, low mountains and highlands near Adriatic coastline and islands highest point Dinara 1,830 m	low and flat to gently rolling plains,  174 m
Population	4,496,869 (July 2004 est.) 0-14 years: 16.6% (male 383,729; female 364,287) 15-64 years: 67% (male 1,497,525; female 1,515,956) 65 years and over: 16.4% (male 277,616; female 457,756) Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, Bosniak 0.5%, Hungarian 0.4%, Slovene 0.3%, Czech 0.2%, Roma 0.2%, Albanian 0.1%, Montenegrin 0.1%, others 4.1% (2001)	5,413,392 (2004 est.) 0-14 years: 18.9% (male 523,888; female 497,420) 15-64 years: 66.2% (male 1,808,376; female 1,774,388) 65 years and over: 15% (male 344,113; female 465,207)
Languages	Croatian 96%, other 4% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German)	Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority)
Religions	Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, Muslim 1.3%, Protestant 0.3%, others and unknown 6.2% (2001)	Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2%
National holiday	Statehood Day, 25 June (1991)	none designated; Constitution Day, 5 June is generally viewed as the National Day
Legal system	based on civil law system	civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations
Currency	1 Danish Krone = 1.00058 Croatian Kuna 1 Croatian Kuna (HRK) = 0.99942 Danish Krone (DKK)	1 Danish Krone (DKK) = USD 0,17
Natural resources	oil, some coal, bauxite, low-grade iron ore, calcium, gypsum, natural asphalt, silica, mica, clays, salt, hydropower	petroleum, natural gas, fish, salt, limestone, chalk, stone, gravel and sand
Land use	arable land: 26.09% permanent crops: 2.27% other: 71.65% (2001)
Economy - overview	Before the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Republic of Croatia, after Slovenia, was the most prosperous and industrialized area, with a per capita output perhaps one-third above the Yugoslav average. The economy emerged from a mild recession in 2000 with tourism, banking, and public investments leading the way. Unemployment remains high, at over 13 percent, with structural factors slowing its decline. While macroeconomic stabilization has largely been achieved, structural reforms lag because of deep resistance on the part of the public and lack of strong support from politicians. Growth, while impressively over 4% for the last several years, has been achieved through high fiscal and current account deficits. The government is gradually reducing a heavy back log of civil cases, many involving land tenure. The EU accession process should accelerate fiscal and structural reform.	This thoroughly modern market economy features high-tech agriculture, up-to-date small-scale and corporate industry, extensive government welfare measures, comfortable living standards, a stable currency, and high dependence on foreign trade. Denmark is a net exporter of food and energy and enjoys a comfortable balance of payments surplus. Government objectives include streamlining the bureaucracy and further privatization of state assets. The government has been successful in meeting, and even exceeding, the economic convergence criteria for participating in the third phase (a common European currency) of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), but Denmark has decided not to join 12 other EU members in the euro; even so, the Danish Krone remains pegged to the euro.
GDP - per capita	$10,600 (2003 est.)	purchasing power parity - $31,100 (2003 est.)
GDP - composi-tion by sector	agriculture: 7.9% industry: 30% services: 62.1% (2003 est.)	agriculture: 2% industry: 22.1% services: 75.9% (2003 est.)
Labor force - by occupation	agriculture 13.2%, industry 25.4%, services 46.4% (2002)	agriculture 4%, industry 17%, services 79% (2002 est.)
Exports - partners	Italy 26.1%, Bosnia and Herzegovina 14.6%, Germany 12%, Slovenia 8.3%, Austria 7.9% (2003)	Germany 18.7%, Sweden 12.6%, UK 8.5%, US 6.2%, Norway 5.7%, France 5.1%, Netherlands 4.7% (2003)
Imports - partners	Italy 17.9%, Germany 15.7%, Slovenia 7.4%, Austria 6.6%, France 5.3%, Russia 4.7% (2003)	Germany 23.1%, Sweden 13%, UK 7%, Netherlands 6.9%, France 4.9%, Norway 4.5%, Italy 4.1% (2003)
	GDP = Gross Domestic Product = bruttonationalproduktet,	i 2003 var DK nr. 8 i verden.   Målt per indbygger.

Jugoslavien under 2 Verdenskrig:

	Jugoslavien (sammen med Polen) var Europas mest  krigshærgede land.
	10% af Jugoslaviens daværende befolkning på 17 mill, altså 1,7 mill., var omkommet.
	Det var 34% af de allieredes samlede tab.
	Mange var myrdet af de stridende fraktioner mellem Kroatiens Ustasja, Serbiens Cetnikker, og Titos partisaner - og ikke udelukkende af besættelsesmagterne Italien og Tyskland.
	10 % af befolkningen havde været i lokale koncentrationslejre eller var blevet tvangsforflyttet.
	200.000 børn var forældreløse.
	Hvert eneste bjergværk var ødelagt,
	60% af landbruget og industrien var gået tabt,
	Broer, veje, jernbaner var sprængt i luften

Jugoslavien, da opløsningen brød ud i begyndelsen af 1990,

	ustabil økonomi, men en årlig inflation på 1000%
	nationalismen får fuld næring - og gamle stridigheder fra de seneste århundrede kommer frem,
	indbyggere i 1990 : ca. 23 mill

Paradoksernes land:

1. Jugoslavien var da 1 land,

2. I Jugoslavien bruges 2 alfabeter: det latinske i vest; det kyrilliske i øst, og begge i midten,

3. Der er 3 hovedreligioner: Den ortodokse i øst, den romersk-katolske i vest, og islam primært i Bosnien-Hercegovina,

4. Der er 4 sprog: Slovensk i nord, Makedonisk i syd, kroatisk i vest, og serbisk i midten, dog er krotisk og serbisk tæt på at være et sprog,

5. Der er 5 nationalstater : Slovenien, Kroatien, Serbien, Montenegro, Makedonien; men hertil kommer Bosnien-Hercegovina, der primært er muslimsk, men taler Serbokroatisk, samt mange nationale mindretal: albanere, ungarere, rumænere, tyrkere, bulgarere, italienere, sigøjnere, tjekker, slovakker,

6. Der er 6 republikker: Slovenien (2 mill.), Kroatien (5 mill.), Bosnien-Hercegovina (4 mill.), Serbien (10 mill.), Montenegro (0,7 mill), Makedonien (2 mill.)

7. Jugoslavien har 7 naboer (det største antal i Europa) : Østrig, Ungarn, Rumænien, Bulgarien, Grækenland, Albanien, Italien.

8. Der var 8 nationalbanker med selvstændige økonomier, og 8 lokale regeringer (fra hver republik og fra 2 autonome provinser),