Quality of life comparison

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

Economy

be 17.1% less likely to be unemployed

In Guam, 5.6% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In China, that number is 4.6% as of 2025.

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make 66.9% less money

Guam has a GDP per capita of $41,833 as of 2022, while in China, the GDP per capita is $13,862 as of 2025.

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Life

be 64.2% less likely to die during infancy

In Guam, approximately 11.5 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In China, on the other hand, 4.1 children do as of 2024.

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have 61.0% fewer children

In Guam, there are approximately 17.3 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In China, there are 6.8 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

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Geography

see 115.5 times more coastline

Guam has a total of 126 km of coastline. In China, that number is 14,500 km.

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Safety

be 88.5% less likely to be murdered

Guam has a homicide rate of 4.3 per 100,000 people as of 2019. In China, that number is 0.5 per 100,000 as of 2020.

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Infrastructure

find 25.6 times more home broadband

Guam has 1.8 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2022. China has 47.2 as of 2024.

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Sources: World Bank (2019–2025), The World Factbook (2022). How we calculate this

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China: At a glance

China (sometimes abbreviated PRC) is a sovereign country in East/Southeast Asia, with a total land area of approximately 9,326,410 sq km. For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. After World War II, the communists under MAO Zedong established an autocratic socialist system that, while ensuring China's sovereignty, imposed strict controls over everyday life and cost the lives of tens of millions of people. After 1978, MAO's successor DENG Xiaoping and other leaders focused on market-oriented economic development and by 2000 output had quadrupled. For much of the population, living standards have improved dramatically and the room for personal choice has expanded, yet political controls remain tight. Since the early 1990s, China has increased its global outreach and participation in international organizations.
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