Quality of life comparison
If you lived in North Carolina instead of Northern Mariana Islands, you would:
Economy
make 2.5 times more money
Northern Mariana Islands has a GDP per capita of $23,786 as of 2022, while in North Carolina, the GDP per capita is $59,308 as of 2024.
Basic Needs
be 3.5 times more likely to have internet access
In Northern Mariana Islands, approximately 25.1% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In North Carolina, about 88.7% do as of 2023.
Sources: World Bank (2022), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024), The World Factbook (2021), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023). How we calculate this
