Quality of life comparison

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

Health

be 54.0% less likely to be obese

In District of Columbia, 25.3% of adults are obese as of 2022. In Djibouti, that number is 11.7% of people as of 2024.

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Economy

be 4.1 times more likely to be unemployed

In District of Columbia, 6.4% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Djibouti, that number is 26.0% as of 2025.

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make 98.1% less money

District of Columbia has a GDP per capita of $209,167 as of 2024, while in Djibouti, the GDP per capita is $3,906 as of 2025.

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Basic Needs

be 27.7% less likely to have internet access

In District of Columbia, approximately 90.3% of the population has internet access as of 2023. In Djibouti, about 65.3% do as of 2024.

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

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Djibouti: At a glance

Djibouti is a sovereign country in Africa, with a total land area of approximately 23,180 sq km. The French Territory of the Afars and the Issas became Djibouti in 1977. Hassan Gouled APTIDON installed an authoritarian one-party state and proceeded to serve as president until 1999. Unrest among the Afar minority during the 1990s led to a civil war that ended in 2001 with a peace accord between Afar rebels and the Somali Issa-dominated government. In 1999, Djibouti's first multiparty presidential elections resulted in the election of Ismail Omar GUELLEH as president; he was reelected to a second term in 2005 and extended his tenure in office via a constitutional amendment, which allowed him to begin a third term in 2011. Djibouti occupies a strategic geographic location at the intersection of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden and serves as an important shipping portal for goods entering and leaving the east African highlands and transshipments between Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The government holds longstanding ties to France, which maintains a significant military presence in the country, and has strong ties with the United States. Djibouti hosts several thousand members of US armed services at US-run Camp Lemonnier.
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