Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in South Carolina instead of Guam, you would:

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be 12.0% less likely to be unemployed

In Guam, 5.6% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In South Carolina, that number is 4.9% as of 2025.

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make 19.3% more money

Guam has a GDP per capita of $41,833 as of 2022, while in South Carolina, the GDP per capita is $49,914 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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