Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Economy

make 13.3% more money

Faroe Islands has a GDP per capita of $74,175 as of 2024, while in California, the GDP per capita is $84,028 as of 2024.

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Sources: World Bank (2024), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this

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