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

Economy

be 40.8% less likely to be unemployed

In Guam, 5.6% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Iowa, that number is 3.3% as of 2025.

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make 52.4% more money

Guam has a GDP per capita of $41,833 as of 2022, while in Iowa, the GDP per capita is $63,747 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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