Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in New York instead of Virgin Islands, you would:

Economy

be 61.5% less likely to be unemployed

In Virgin Islands, 11.4% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In New York, that number is 4.4% as of 2025.

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make 2.1 times more money

Virgin Islands has a GDP per capita of $44,321 as of 2022, while in New York, the GDP per capita is $91,992 as of 2024.

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Basic Needs

be 38.4% more likely to have internet access

In Virgin Islands, approximately 64.8% of the population has internet access as of 2022. In New York, about 89.7% 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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