Quality of life comparison
If you lived in Texas instead of Chile, you would:
Economy
be 56.5% less likely to be unemployed
In Chile, 9.0% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Texas, that number is 3.9% as of 2025.
make 3.9 times more money
Chile has a GDP per capita of $17,995 as of 2025, while in Texas, the GDP per capita is $70,071 as of 2024.
be 93.8% more likely to live below the poverty line
In Chile, 6.5% live below the poverty line as of 2022. In Texas, however, that number is 12.6% 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
