Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Minnesota instead of Brunei, you would:

Economy

be 18.4% less likely to be unemployed

In Brunei, 5.3% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Minnesota, that number is 4.3% as of 2025.

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make 12.1% less money

Brunei has a GDP per capita of $77,900 as of 2023, while in Minnesota, the GDP per capita is $68,478 as of 2024.

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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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