Quality of life comparison

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

Health

be 28.3% more likely to be obese

In District of Columbia, 25.3% of adults are obese as of 2022. In Dominica, that number is 32.5% of people as of 2024.

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Economy

make 94.7% less money

District of Columbia has a GDP per capita of $209,167 as of 2024, while in Dominica, the GDP per capita is $10,989 as of 2025.

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Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (PLACES) (2022), World Health Organization (2024), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024), World Bank (2025). How we calculate this

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Cost of Living Comparison · 7 categories - 2026 data
Dominica is 64.6% cheaper than District of Columbia
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District of Columbia is about 4.2 times smaller than Dominica.
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Dominica: At a glance

Dominica is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 751 sq km. Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands to be colonized by Europeans due chiefly to the fierce resistance of the native Caribs. France ceded possession to Great Britain in 1763, which made the island a colony in 1805. In 1980, two years after independence, Dominica's fortunes improved when a corrupt and tyrannical administration was replaced by that of Mary Eugenia CHARLES, the first female prime minister in the Caribbean, who remained in office for 15 years. Some 3,000 Carib Indians still living on Dominica are the only pre-Columbian population remaining in the eastern Caribbean.
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