Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Kansas instead of Guyana, you would:

Health

be 22.1% more likely to be obese

In Guyana, 30.1% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Kansas, that number is 36.8% of people as of 2022.

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Economy

be 71.6% less likely to be unemployed

In Guyana, 12.0% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Kansas, that number is 3.4% as of 2025.

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make 88.2% more money

Guyana has a GDP per capita of $32,414 as of 2025, while in Kansas, the GDP per capita is $60,996 as of 2024.

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Sources: World Bank (2025), World Health Organization (2024), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (PLACES) (2022), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this

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