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If you lived in Louisiana instead of Macau, you would:

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be 66.0% more likely to be unemployed

In Macau, 2.4% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Louisiana, that number is 3.9% as of 2025.

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make 26.7% less money

Macau has a GDP per capita of $75,902 as of 2025, while in Louisiana, the GDP per capita is $55,662 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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