Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Chad instead of District of Columbia, you would:

Health

be 70.8% less likely to be obese

In District of Columbia, 25.3% of adults are obese as of 2022. In Chad, that number is 7.4% of people as of 2024.

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Economy

be 83.4% less likely to be unemployed

In District of Columbia, 6.4% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Chad, that number is 1.1% as of 2025.

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be 3.3 times more likely to live below the poverty line

In District of Columbia, 13.6% live below the poverty line as of 2023. In Chad, however, that number is 44.8% as of 2022.

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make 99.5% less money

District of Columbia has a GDP per capita of $209,167 as of 2024, while in Chad, the GDP per capita is $1,022 as of 2025.

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Basic Needs

be 86.0% less likely to have internet access

In District of Columbia, approximately 90.3% of the population has internet access as of 2023. In Chad, about 12.6% do as of 2024.

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Sources: World Bank (2022–2025), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (PLACES) (2022), World Health Organization (2024), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this

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Chad: At a glance

Chad is a sovereign country in Africa, with a total land area of approximately 1,259,200 sq km. Chad, part of France's African holdings until 1960, endured three decades of civil warfare, as well as invasions by Libya, before a semblance of peace was finally restored in 1990. The government eventually drafted a democratic constitution and held flawed presidential elections in 1996 and 2001. In 1998, a rebellion broke out in northern Chad, which has sporadically flared up despite several peace agreements between the government and the insurgents. In 2005, new rebel groups emerged in western Sudan and made probing attacks into eastern Chad despite signing peace agreements in December 2006 and October 2007. In June 2005, President Idriss DEBY held a referendum successfully removing constitutional term limits and won another controversial election in 2006. Sporadic rebel campaigns continued throughout 2006 and 2007. The capital experienced a significant insurrection in early 2008, but has had no significant rebel threats since then, in part due to Chad's 2010 rapprochement with Sudan, which previously used Chadian rebels as proxies. DEBY in 2011 was reelected to his fourth term in an election that international observers described as proceeding without incident. Power remains in the hands of an ethnic minority. In January 2014, Chad began a two year rotation on the UN Security Council.
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