Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Tennessee instead of Marshall Islands, you would:

Economy

make 7.1 times more money

Marshall Islands has a GDP per capita of $8,489 as of 2025, while in Tennessee, the GDP per capita is $60,177 as of 2024.

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Basic Needs

be 32.9% more likely to have internet access

In Marshall Islands, approximately 65.9% of the population has internet access as of 2024. In Tennessee, about 87.6% do as of 2023.

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Sources: World Bank (2024–2025), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023). How we calculate this

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