Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Alabama instead of Faroe Islands, you would:

Economy

make 33.6% less money

Faroe Islands has a GDP per capita of $74,175 as of 2024, while in Alabama, the GDP per capita is $49,225 as of 2024.

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Basic Needs

be 12.0% less likely to have internet access

In Faroe Islands, approximately 97.6% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Alabama, about 85.9% do as of 2023.

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Sources: World Bank (2024), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024), The World Factbook (2021), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023). How we calculate this

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