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If you lived in Guam instead of Oklahoma, you would:

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be 46.6% more likely to be unemployed

In Oklahoma, 3.8% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Guam, that number is 5.6% as of 2025.

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make 18.0% less money

Oklahoma has a GDP per capita of $51,007 as of 2024, while in Guam, the GDP per capita is $41,833 as of 2022.

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Sources: World Bank (2022–2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this

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Guam: At a glance

Guam is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 544 sq km. Spain ceded Guam to the US in 1898. Captured by the Japanese in 1941, it was retaken by the US three years later. The military installations on the island are some of the most strategically important US bases in the Pacific.
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