Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Alaska instead of Libya, you would:

Economy

be 73.3% less likely to be unemployed

In Libya, 18.8% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Alaska, that number is 5.0% as of 2025.

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make 11.8 times more money

Libya has a GDP per capita of $6,449 as of 2025, while in Alaska, the GDP per capita is $75,882 as of 2024.

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Basic Needs

be 10.8% more likely to have internet access

In Libya, approximately 82.0% of the population has internet access as of 2024. In Alaska, about 90.8% do as of 2023.

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Sources: World Bank (2024–2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023). How we calculate this

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