Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in New York instead of Cayman Islands, you would:

Economy

make 11.8% less money

Cayman Islands has a GDP per capita of $104,293 as of 2024, while in New York, the GDP per capita is $91,992 as of 2024.

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Basic Needs

be 10.6% more likely to have internet access

In Cayman Islands, approximately 81.1% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In New York, about 89.7% do as of 2023.

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Sources: World Bank (2024), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024), The World Factbook (2021), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023). How we calculate this

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