Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Sweden instead of Cayman Islands, you would:

Economy

make 19.3% less money

Cayman Islands has a GDP per capita of $79,600 as of 2022, while in Sweden, the GDP per capita is $64,200 as of 2023.

be 89.8% more likely to be unemployed

In Cayman Islands, 4.0% of adults are unemployed as of 2008. In Sweden, that number is 7.6% as of 2023.

Life

be 69.9% less likely to die during infancy

In Cayman Islands, approximately 7.7 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Sweden, on the other hand, 2.3 children do as of 2022.

Expenditures

spend 3.4 times more on education

Cayman Islands spends 2.1% of its total GDP on education as of 2019. Sweden spends 7.2% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

Geography

see 20.1 times more coastline

Cayman Islands has a total of 160 km of coastline. In Sweden, that number is 3,218 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

Sweden: At a glance

Sweden is a sovereign country in Europe, with a total land area of approximately 410,335 sq km. A military power during the 17th century, Sweden has not participated in any war for almost two centuries. An armed neutrality was preserved in both world wars. Sweden's long-successful economic formula of a capitalist system intermixed with substantial welfare elements was challenged in the 1990s by high unemployment and in 2000-02 and 2009 by the global economic downturns, but fiscal discipline over the past several years has allowed the country to weather economic vagaries. Sweden joined the EU in 1995, but the public rejected the introduction of the euro in a 2003 referendum.
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