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If you lived in Minnesota instead of United Arab Emirates, you would:

Economy

be 58.7% more likely to be unemployed

In United Arab Emirates, 2.7% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Minnesota, that number is 4.3% as of 2025.

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The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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