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

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be 79.2% less likely to be unemployed

In Libya, 18.8% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Texas, that number is 3.9% as of 2025.

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make 10.9 times more money

Libya has a GDP per capita of $6,449 as of 2025, while in Texas, the GDP per capita is $70,071 as of 2024.

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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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