Table 1. Selected socio-economic indicators, including human and sustainable development of Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Selected indicators of socio-economic, human, sustainable development	Slovenia	Croatia	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Human development index (HDI) and its components (Human Development Report 2020)
HDI value 2019	0.917	0.851	0.780
HDI rank 2019	22	43	73
Change in HDI rank 2014–2019	+2	+2	+8
Average annual HDI growth (1990–2019)	0.59	0.79	N/A*
Life expectancy (years)	81.3	78.5	77.4
Gross national income (in 2017 PPP USD)	38,080	28,070	14,872
Selected values indicators (World Value Survey Wave 7, 2017–2020)
Feeling ’very happy’	21%	18.5%	29.6%
A feeling of a ’great deal’ of choice and control in life	19.9%	22.5%	34.4%
Being ’completely satisfied’ with one’s life	14.3%	21.9%	29.7%
Public trust: Most people can be trusted	25.3%	13.6%	9.6%
’A great deal of confidence’ into government	1.7%	0.8%	3.1%
’A great deal of confidence’ into major companies	4.5%	2.8%	6.7%
’A great deal of confidence into the environmental protection movement	6.2%	5.2%	7.7%
Absolute preference of income equality over income differences	14.9%	24.5%	32.1%
Absolute preference of government ownership of the businesses	5.9%	19.9%	35.2%
Protection of environment preferred to economic growth	60.2%	52.8%	36.7%
Absolute preference of government taking responsibility for social welfare	8.7%	18.8%	27.2%
A feeling of the country being governed ’not at all democratic.’	6.5%	17.2%	30%
Feeling ’very proud’ about their nation	50.8%	39.2%	28.4%
Sustainable development index in Sout East Europe—as calculated by Golusin and Munitlak Ivanović [64]
Overall value	611,638	396,531	224,271
Economic dimension	538,000	310,320	130,350
Environmental dimension	63,100	80,040	90,070
Social dimension	10,104	5,645	3,535

* The average annual HDI growth for the 2000–2010 period equals 0.66, and for 2010–2019 equals 0.88.