Quality of life comparison
compared to
If you lived in Utah instead of Australia, you would:
Economy
be 14.4% less likely to be unemployed
In Australia, 4.1% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Utah, that number is 3.5% as of 2025.
be 41.0% less likely to live below the poverty line
In Australia, 13.4% live below the poverty line as of 2020. In Utah, however, that number is 7.9% as of 2023.
Sources: World Bank (2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), The World Factbook (2020), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023). How we calculate this
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