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If you lived in Dominica instead of Rhode Island, you would:

Economy

make 80.7% less money

Rhode Island has a GDP per capita of $56,938 as of 2024, while in Dominica, the GDP per capita is $10,989 as of 2025.

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

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Dominica: At a glance

Dominica is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 751 sq km. Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands to be colonized by Europeans due chiefly to the fierce resistance of the native Caribs. France ceded possession to Great Britain in 1763, which made the island a colony in 1805. In 1980, two years after independence, Dominica's fortunes improved when a corrupt and tyrannical administration was replaced by that of Mary Eugenia CHARLES, the first female prime minister in the Caribbean, who remained in office for 15 years. Some 3,000 Carib Indians still living on Dominica are the only pre-Columbian population remaining in the eastern Caribbean.
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