Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Honduras instead of North Carolina, you would:

Economy

be 44.7% more likely to be unemployed

In North Carolina, 3.4% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Honduras, that number is 4.9% as of 2025.

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be 5.0 times more likely to live below the poverty line

In North Carolina, 12.1% live below the poverty line as of 2023. In Honduras, however, that number is 60.1% as of 2025.

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make 93.9% less money

North Carolina has a GDP per capita of $59,308 as of 2024, while in Honduras, the GDP per capita is $3,598 as of 2025.

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Basic Needs

be 33.9% less likely to have internet access

In North Carolina, approximately 88.7% of the population has internet access as of 2023. In Honduras, about 58.6% do as of 2024.

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

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Honduras: At a glance

Honduras is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 111,890 sq km. Once part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821. After two and a half decades of mostly military rule, a freely elected civilian government came to power in 1982. During the 1980s, Honduras proved a haven for anti-Sandinista contras fighting the Marxist Nicaraguan Government and an ally to Salvadoran Government forces fighting leftist guerrillas. The country was devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998, which killed about 5,600 people and caused approximately $2 billion in damage. Since then, the economy has slowly rebounded.
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