Quality of life comparison
If you lived in Iowa instead of Virgin Islands, you would:
Economy
be 71.2% less likely to be unemployed
In Virgin Islands, 11.4% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Iowa, that number is 3.3% as of 2025.
make 43.8% more money
Virgin Islands has a GDP per capita of $44,321 as of 2022, while in Iowa, the GDP per capita is $63,747 as of 2024.
Basic Needs
be 35.6% more likely to have internet access
In Virgin Islands, approximately 64.8% of the population has internet access as of 2022. In Iowa, about 87.9% do as of 2023.
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
