Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in New York instead of Macau, you would:

Economy

make 21.2% more money

Macau has a GDP per capita of $75,902 as of 2025, while in New York, the GDP per capita is $91,992 as of 2024.

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be 87.2% more likely to be unemployed

In Macau, 2.4% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In New York, that number is 4.4% 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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