Quality of life comparison
If you lived in California instead of Mongolia, you would:
Health
be 13.1% more likely to be obese
In Mongolia, 25.1% of adults are obese as of 2024. In California, that number is 28.4% of people as of 2022.
Economy
be 56.8% less likely to live below the poverty line
In Mongolia, 27.1% live below the poverty line as of 2022. In California, however, that number is 11.7% as of 2023.
make 11.8 times more money
Mongolia has a GDP per capita of $7,108 as of 2025, while in California, the GDP per capita is $84,028 as of 2024.
Sources: World Bank (2022–2025), World Health Organization (2024), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (PLACES) (2022), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this
