Quality of life comparison
If you lived in Virginia 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 Virginia, that number is 3.4% as of 2025.
make 65.2% more money
Guam has a GDP per capita of $41,833 as of 2022, while in Virginia, the GDP per capita is $69,111 as of 2024.
Basic Needs
be 11.9% more likely to have internet access
In Guam, approximately 80.5% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Virginia, about 90.1% 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
