Quality of life comparison
compared to
If you lived in Mississippi instead of Guyana, you would:
Economy
be 75.1% less likely to be unemployed
In Guyana, 12.4% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Mississippi, that number is 3.1% as of 2025.
make 16.1% less money
Guyana has a GDP per capita of $49,800 as of 2023, while in Mississippi, the GDP per capita is $41,778 as of 2024.
The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
