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compared to

If you lived in New York instead of Uzbekistan, you would:

Economy

make 23.2 times more money

Uzbekistan has a GDP per capita of $3,968 as of 2025, while in New York, the GDP per capita is $91,992 as of 2024.

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be 2.3 times more likely to live below the poverty line

In Uzbekistan, 5.8% live below the poverty line as of 2025. In New York, however, that number is 13.3% as of 2023.

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

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