Quality of life comparison
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If you lived in California instead of Canada, you would:
Economy
be 26.2% less likely to be unemployed
In Canada, 6.9% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In California, that number is 5.1% as of 2025.
make 50.9% more money
Canada has a GDP per capita of $55,698 as of 2025, while in California, the GDP per capita is $84,028 as of 2024.
Sources: World Bank (2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this
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