Quality of life comparison
If you lived in North Carolina instead of Guam, you would:
Economy
be 39.0% less likely to be unemployed
In Guam, 5.6% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In North Carolina, that number is 3.4% as of 2025.
make 41.8% more money
Guam has a GDP per capita of $41,833 as of 2022, while in North Carolina, the GDP per capita is $59,308 as of 2024.
Basic Needs
be 10.2% more likely to have internet access
In Guam, approximately 80.5% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In North Carolina, about 88.7% do as of 2023.
Sources: World Bank (2022–2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024), The World Factbook (2021), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023). How we calculate this
