Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Iowa instead of Maldives, you would:

Economy

make 2.8 times more money

Maldives has a GDP per capita of $22,400 as of 2023, while in Iowa, the GDP per capita is $63,747 as of 2024.

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be 20.1% less likely to be unemployed

In Maldives, 4.1% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Iowa, that number is 3.3% as of 2025.

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The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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