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compared to

If you lived in Illinois instead of New Caledonia, you would:

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be 57.0% less likely to be unemployed

In New Caledonia, 11.2% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Illinois, that number is 4.8% as of 2025.

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make 2.4 times more money

New Caledonia has a GDP per capita of $29,213 as of 2024, while in Illinois, the GDP per capita is $70,691 as of 2024.

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Sources: World Bank (2024–2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this

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