Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in North Carolina instead of Australia, you would:

Economy

be 16.9% less likely to be unemployed

In Australia, 4.1% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In North Carolina, that number is 3.4% as of 2025.

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Sources: World Bank (2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025). How we calculate this

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