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compared to

If you lived in North Dakota instead of Mexico, you would:

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be 66.2% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Mexico, 29.6% live below the poverty line as of 2024. In North Dakota, however, that number is 10.0% as of 2023.

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make 5.7 times more money

Mexico has a GDP per capita of $13,889 as of 2025, while in North Dakota, the GDP per capita is $79,272 as of 2024.

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

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