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

Economy

make 3.2 times more money

Brazil has a GDP per capita of $18,600 as of 2023, while in North Carolina, the GDP per capita is $59,308 as of 2024.

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be 57.2% less likely to be unemployed

In Brazil, 8.0% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In North Carolina, that number is 3.4% as of 2025.

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The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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