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If you lived in Arkansas instead of Guam, you would:

Economy

be 24.6% less likely to be unemployed

In Guam, 5.6% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Arkansas, that number is 4.2% as of 2025.

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make 13.1% more money

Guam has a GDP per capita of $41,833 as of 2022, while in Arkansas, the GDP per capita is $47,319 as of 2024.

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Sources: World Bank (2022–2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this

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