Quality of life comparison

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

Economy

make 15.6% more money

Macau has a GDP per capita of $75,902 as of 2025, while in Washington, the GDP per capita is $87,768 as of 2024.

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be 2.3 times more likely to be unemployed

In Macau, 2.4% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Washington, that number is 5.3% 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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