Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Minnesota instead of Syria, you would:

Economy

be 68.3% less likely to be unemployed

In Syria, 13.6% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Minnesota, that number is 4.3% as of 2025.

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make 64.8 times more money

Syria has a GDP per capita of $1,057 as of 2022, while in Minnesota, the GDP per capita is $68,478 as of 2024.

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Basic Needs

be 95.3% more likely to have internet access

In Syria, approximately 46.6% of the population has internet access as of 2022. In Minnesota, about 91.0% do as of 2023.

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Sources: World Bank (2022–2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024), The World Factbook (2022), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023). How we calculate this

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