Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Texas instead of Kuwait, you would:

Economy

make 2.2 times more money

Kuwait has a GDP per capita of $32,312 as of 2025, while in Texas, the GDP per capita is $70,071 as of 2024.

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be 78.9% more likely to be unemployed

In Kuwait, 2.2% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Texas, that number is 3.9% 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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