If you lived in Virginia instead of Sri Lanka, you would:

Economy

make 5.3 times more money

Sri Lanka has a GDP per capita of $13,000 as of 2023, while in Virginia, the GDP per capita is $69,111 as of 2024.

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be 46.5% less likely to be unemployed

In Sri Lanka, 6.4% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Virginia, that number is 3.4% as of 2025.

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Basic Needs

be 34.5% more likely to have internet access

In Sri Lanka, approximately 67.0% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Virginia, about 90.1% do as of 2023.

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The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook, Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Census Bureau (American Community Survey), Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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