Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Pennsylvania instead of Australia, you would:

Health

be 12.5% more likely to be obese

In Australia, 30.6% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Pennsylvania, that number is 34.4% of people as of 2022.

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Economy

be 15.7% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Australia, 13.4% live below the poverty line as of 2020. In Pennsylvania, however, that number is 11.3% as of 2023.

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Sources: World Health Organization (2024), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (PLACES) (2022), The World Factbook (2020), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023). How we calculate this

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