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Is Serbia richer than Slovenia?

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It really depends on what you mean by “rich” but by most measures currently employed to measure a country's wealth Slovenia is not just richer per capita but richer in an absolute sense. read more

Slovenia has better living standards, a higher GDP ( 43bn compared to serbia’s 38bn) even though Serbia’s population is more than 3x that of Slovenia. Slovenia also has a much higher GDP (per capita). read more

In 1989, Slobodan MILOSEVIC became president of the Republic of Serbia and his ultranationalist calls for Serbian domination led to the violent breakup of Yugoslavia along ethnic lines. In 1991, Croatia, Slovenia, and Macedonia declared independence, followed by Bosnia in 1992. read more

So, to recap, Slovenia was stable, had very good industry that was left intact by the war and continued to find new markets and entered the EU much sooner than the rest of Yugoslavia. You don't really need natural resources when you're such a small country to be reasonably wealthy. read more

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