Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Iowa instead of Palau, you would:

Economy

make 3.3 times more money

Palau has a GDP per capita of $19,532 as of 2025, while in Iowa, the GDP per capita is $63,747 as of 2024.

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

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