Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in New York instead of Brunei, you would:

Economy

make 18.1% more money

Brunei has a GDP per capita of $77,900 as of 2023, while in New York, the GDP per capita is $91,992 as of 2024.

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be 16.5% less likely to be unemployed

In Brunei, 5.3% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In New York, that number is 4.4% 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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