Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Iowa instead of Hong Kong, you would:

Economy

make 11.9% more money

Hong Kong has a GDP per capita of $56,983 as of 2025, while in Iowa, the GDP per capita is $63,747 as of 2024.

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be 17.9% more likely to be unemployed

In Hong Kong, 2.8% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Iowa, that number is 3.3% as of 2025.

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Sources: World Bank (2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this

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