Quality of life comparison
If you lived in Montana instead of Peru, you would:
Economy
be 27.7% less likely to be unemployed
In Peru, 5.1% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Montana, that number is 3.7% as of 2025.
be 55.6% less likely to live below the poverty line
In Peru, 25.7% live below the poverty line as of 2025. In Montana, however, that number is 11.4% as of 2023.
make 5.5 times more money
Peru has a GDP per capita of $9,684 as of 2025, while in Montana, the GDP per capita is $52,945 as of 2024.
Sources: World Bank (2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this
