Quality of life comparison
If you lived in Mississippi instead of Egypt, you would:
Economy
be 54.3% less likely to be unemployed
In Egypt, 6.8% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Mississippi, that number is 3.1% as of 2025.
be 45.1% less likely to live below the poverty line
In Egypt, 33.5% live below the poverty line as of 2021. In Mississippi, however, that number is 18.4% as of 2023.
make 13.5 times more money
Egypt has a GDP per capita of $3,086 as of 2025, while in Mississippi, the GDP per capita is $41,778 as of 2024.
Sources: World Bank (2021–2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this
