Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in South Carolina instead of Northern Mariana Islands, you would:

Economy

make 2.1 times more money

Northern Mariana Islands has a GDP per capita of $23,786 as of 2022, while in South Carolina, the GDP per capita is $49,914 as of 2024.

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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 South Carolina, about 87.0% do as of 2023.

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Sources: World Bank (2022), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024), The World Factbook (2021), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023). How we calculate this

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Northern Mariana Islands is about 168 times smaller than South Carolina.
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