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If you lived in Hawaii instead of Canada, you would:

Economy

be 68.2% less likely to be unemployed

In Canada, 6.9% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Hawaii, that number is 2.2% as of 2025.

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make 15.1% more money

Canada has a GDP per capita of $55,698 as of 2025, while in Hawaii, the GDP per capita is $64,124 as of 2024.

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Sources: World Bank (2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this

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