Quality of life comparison
If you lived in Kentucky instead of Chile, you would:
Economy
be 61.0% less likely to be unemployed
In Chile, 9.0% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Kentucky, that number is 3.5% as of 2025.
make 2.8 times more money
Chile has a GDP per capita of $17,995 as of 2025, while in Kentucky, the GDP per capita is $50,135 as of 2024.
be 2.4 times more likely to live below the poverty line
In Chile, 6.5% live below the poverty line as of 2022. In Kentucky, however, that number is 15.4% as of 2023.
Sources: World Bank (2022–2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this
