Mapped: Median Income by State in 2024

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Median Income by State in 2024, Adjusted for Cost of Living

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To gain insight into the U.S. economy, we’ve visualized the median income by state, as of May 2024. These figures come from WalletHub, which sourced income data from the U.S. Census Bureau and adjusted it for cost of living according to the Cost of Living Index (COLI).

ℹ️ Median income refers to the income level at the midpoint of the income distribution within each state. Using California as an example, half of the state’s households earn more than $124,000, while the other half earn less (after cost of living adjustments). Data and Key Takeaways

All of the numbers we used to create this graphic are listed in the table below.

RankStateMedian Annual Income
(adjusted for cost of living) 1DC$162,265 2Hawaii$141,832 3Massachusetts$127,760 4Maryland$124,693 5California$123,988 6New Jersey$117,847 7Connecticut$114,156 8Alaska$113,934 9New Hampshire$110,205 10Rhode Island$104,252 11Washington$103,748 12Colorado$97,301 13New York$91,366 14Oregon$91,100 15Utah$89,786 16Vermont$89,695 17Virginia$89,393 18Delaware$87,173 19Minnesota$86,364 20Nevada$80,366 21North Dakota$79,874 22Maine$79,800 23Illinois$78,304 24Wyoming$76,307 25Pennsylvania$74,711 26Arizona$74,375 27Wisconsin$72,602 28Nebraska$72,384 29Texas$70,513 30Idaho$70,041 31South Dakota$69,266 32Iowa$68,974 33Montana$68,937 34Florida$68,818 35Kansas$68,489 36Georgia$66,612 37Indiana$64,170 38North Carolina$63,025 39South Carolina$62,909 40Michigan$62,446 41Ohio$61,904 42Missouri$59,715 43Tennessee$59,077 44New Mexico$58,911 45Oklahoma$57,215 46Louisiana$56,282 47Kentucky$55,629 48Alabama$55,480 49West Virginia$52,719 50Arkansas$51,032 51Mississippi$46,880

The Cost of Living Index, published by the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), was established in 1968, and allows for consistent place-to-place cost comparisons.

The index considers six categories of spending: groceries, housing, utilities,

Charted: Unauthorized Immigrants in the U.S., by Country of Origin

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Visualizing Unauthorized Immigrants in the U.S.

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More than any other nation, the U.S. is home to over 46 million immigrants. Of these, over 11 million are unauthorized immigrants.

This graphic visualizes the countries of origin for the unauthorized immigrant population in the U.S., based on 2021 estimates from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), published in September 2023. Because these estimates are based on 2021 figures, they don’t capture the record number of border encounters witnessed in 2022 and 2023.

Mexico’s Overall Share is Declining

According to the MPI, Mexico accounted for 7.7 million unauthorized immigrants in 2008. This suggests a 32% decline to the latest estimate of 5.2 million.

CountryRegionUnauthorized Immigrants 🇲🇽 MexicoNorth America5,203,000 🇬🇹 GuatemalaNorth America780,000 🇸🇻 El SalvadorNorth America751,000 🇭🇳 HondurasNorth America564,000 🇮🇳 IndiaAsia400,000 🇵🇭 PhilippinesAsia309,000 🇻🇪 VenezuelaSouth America251,000 🇨🇳 ChinaAsia241,000 🇨🇴 ColombiaSouth America201,000 🇧🇷 BrazilSouth America195,000 🌍 Rest of World2,322,000 Total11,217,000

Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras follow Mexico. According to the Migration Policy Institute, immigration from these three countries has been the most significant contributor to the growth of the Central American-born population in the U.S. since 1980. Roughly 86% of Central Americans in the United States in 2021 were born in one of these three countries.

India comes in fifth. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an unprecedented number of undocumented Indian immigrants have been crossing U.S. borders on foot in recent years.

Among the factors for the increase in Indian immigration to the U.S. are the overall growth in global migration since the pandemic, oppression of minority communities in India, and extreme visa backlogs.

Learn more about unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. by our breakdown by U.S. state found here.

Mapped: 15 Countries with the Highest Smoking Rates

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Mapped: 15 Countries with the Highest Smoking Rates

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It was not until 1950 when the link between smoking and lung cancer was proven, though physicians as far back as the late 19th century had identified it as a potential cause.

Since then, many countries have discouraged tobacco products in an attempt to reduce smoking rates, and consequent health effects.

We visualize the countries with the highest rates of tobacco use among their population aged 15 and older. Data is sourced from the World Health Organization, and is current up to 2022.

Which Countries Smoke the Most?

In Nauru, nearly half of the population aged 15+ uses a tobacco product, the highest in the world. The island also has a high obesity rate, and nearly one-third of the population suffers from diabetes, due to poor nutritional variety in the food supply.

Here’s a list of smoking rates by country, ranked from highest to lowest.

RankCountryTobacco use in
those aged 15+ 1🇳🇷 Nauru48% 2🇲🇲 Myanmar44% 3🇰🇮 Kiribati40% 4🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea40% 5🇧🇬 Bulgaria40% 6🇷🇸 Serbia40% 7🇹🇱 Timor-Leste39% 8🇮🇩 Indonesia38% 9🇭🇷 Croatia37% 10🇸🇧 Solomon Islands37% 11🇦🇩 Andorra36% 12🇧🇦 Bosnia &
Herzegovina36% 13🇨🇾 Cyprus36% 14🇯🇴 Jordan36% 15🇫🇷 France35% N/A🌍 World23%
Note: Figures rounded. “Tobacco use” includes smoke and smokeless products.

Meanwhile, countries in the Balkan also see a high incidence of tobacco use, bucking the general European trend. Entrenched cultural norms, lax laws, and inexpensive cigarettes are some of the most commonly identified causes.

On the other hand, tobacco use is a lot lower in the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa.

In the U.S., fewer than one in four adults smoke. Canada is even lower at 12% of the population. But some African countries (Nigeria and Ghana) are all the way down in the single-digits, at 3%.

Interestingly, men smoke more than women

Mapped: Highest and Lowest Doctor Density Around the World

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Mapped: Highest and Lowest Doctor Density Around the World

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This graphic maps and ranks the countries with the highest and lowest doctor density (measured per 10,000 population), according to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates as of 2022.

ℹ️ “Doctors” includes generalists, specialist medical practitioners and other medical doctors not further defined. Depending on the source country, may include only practicing physicians or all registered physicians.

Health worker density in general is an important metric tracked by the UN, as part of its sustainable development goals. A 2016 WHO study found that investing and expanding healthcare workforces improves economic growth.

Ranked: Doctors Per 10,000 Population

European countries, like Belgium, Georgia, and Austria, lead the ranks by the ratio of doctors to resident population. South American countries, represented by Uruguay and Argentina, also make the top 10.

RankCountryDoctors per 10K People (2022) 1🇧🇪 Belgium63.9 2🇬🇪 Georgia56.1 3🇦🇹 Austria55.1 4🇱🇹 Lithuania51.3 5🇧🇬 Bulgaria49.0 6🇺🇾 Uruguay46.3 7🇮🇸 Iceland45.2 8🇨🇻 Cabo Verde44.6 9🇮🇹 Italy42.5 10🇦🇷 Argentina40.8 11🇵🇾 Paraguay38.8 12🇸🇨 Seychelles38.2 13🇮🇱 Israel37.1 14🇳🇿 New Zealand35.7 15🇨🇱 Chile31.7 16🇬🇧 UK31.7 17🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia30.8 18🇧🇧 Barbados29.7 19🇲🇪 Montenegro27.5 20🇨🇷 Costa Rica26.4 21🇨🇦 Canada25.0 22🇩🇴 Dominican Republic22.3 23🇴🇲 Oman20.6 24🇵🇪 Peru16.2 25🇸🇿 Eswatini15.9 26🇸🇻 El Salvador15.5 27🇲🇺 Mauritius12.0 28🇮🇶 Iraq10.1 29🇮🇩 Indonesia6.9 30🇧🇹 Bhutan5.5 31🇳🇦 Namibia5.4 32🇬🇦 Gabon4.8 33🇳🇬 Nigeria3.9 34🇧🇼 Botswana3.8 35🇿🇲 Zambia2.6 36🇦🇴 Angola2.4 37🇲🇷 Mauritania2.4 38🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau2.1 39🇧🇯 Benin2.0 40🇨🇩 DRC1.9 41🇲🇱 Mali1.9 42🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire1.8 43🇱🇷 Liberia1.8 44🇨🇬 Congo1.7 45🇺🇬 Uganda1.7 46🇿🇼 Zimbabwe1.7

Mapped: The Population of China and India in Perspective

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The Population of China and India in Perspective

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China and India, the world’s two most populous countries, each boast populations exceeding 1.4 billion people.

To put this into perspective, we visualized populations of China and India beside other leading countries and regions. All figures are for 2023, and were accessed via Worldometer.

Data and Key Takeaways

All of the data we used to create this graphic is listed in the table below.

Country / RegionPopulation (2023) 🌍 Africa1,460,481,772 🇮🇳 India1,428,627,663 🇨🇳 China1,425,671,352 🌎 Latin America & the Caribbean664,997,121 🇪🇺🇬🇧 EU plus UK516,659,018 🇺🇸 U.S.339,996,563 🇮🇩 Indonesia277,534,122

From these figures, we can see that the entire population of Africa (currently the fastest growing region in the world) barely surpasses that of China and India.

The populations of China and India are each more than double the size of Latin America and the Caribbean, and nearly triple that of the European Union (including the UK).

Fast Facts on Global Population

Here are some important figures to know regarding the world’s population:

China accounts for 17.7% of the world’s population, while India represents a slightly larger 17.8% share. Africa is the fastest growing region in the world, with annual growth of about 2.4%. Europe is the only region in the world that is shrinking, at about -0.17% annually. Learn More About Demographics from Visual Capitalist

If you enjoy graphics like these, be sure to check out Population Projections: The World’s 6 Largest Countries in 2075.

It reveals a startling contrast between the trajectories of China and India, with the latter peaking at 1.7 billion in the mid-2060s.

Charted: Contributions to UN Peacekeeping Forces by Country

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Charted: Contributions to UN Peacekeeping Forces by Country

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With their sky blue helmets, berets, and badges, the UN Peacekeeping forces are meant to be a symbol of international cooperation in conflict zones around the world.

They’re composed entirely from voluntary contributions from UN Member States—and include police and civilian roles along with military personnel.

The visualization by creator Preyash Shah serves as a primer on the UN Peacekeeping forces. It shows which countries are the biggest personnel contributors, which of them are top funders, and also lists the current ongoing peacekeeping operations. Data for this chart comes from the UN Peacekeeping archives.

Countries by Troop Contributions to UN Peacekeeping (2023)

From South Asia, a trio of countries—Nepal, Bangladesh, and India—are each contributing more than 6,000 personnel to the UN peacekeepers.

A majority of these representatives are soldiers, heavily involved in the four active peacekeeping missions in Africa.

RankCountryPersonnel 1🇳🇵 Nepal6,247 2🇧🇩 Bangladesh6,197 3🇮🇳 India6,073 4🇷🇼 Rwanda5,919 5🇵🇰 Pakistan4,164 6🇮🇩 Indonesia2,717 7🇬🇭 Ghana2,664 8🇨🇳 China2,267 9🇪🇬 Egypt1,739 10🇲🇦 Morocco1,715 11🇹🇿 Tanzania1,544 12🇪🇹 Ethiopia1,509 13🇸🇳 Senegal1,194 14🇿🇦 South Africa1,133 15🇨🇲 Cameroon1,103 16🇺🇾 Uruguay1,016 17🇿🇲 Zambia996 18🇹🇳 Tunisia988 19🇲🇳 Mongolia898 20🇮🇹 Italy872 21🇲🇾 Malaysia865 22🇲🇼 Malawi802 23🇲🇷 Mauritania787 24🇧🇮 Burundi769 25🇰🇭 Cambodia734 26🇪🇸 Spain688 27🇺🇬 Uganda654 28🇫🇷 France587 29🇱🇰 Sri Lanka561 30🇰🇷 South Korea545 31🇮🇪 Ireland458 32🇰🇪 Kenya456 33🇳🇬 Nigeria421 34🇹🇬 Togo408 35🇩🇪 Germany383 36🇯🇴 Jordan357 37🇫🇯 Fiji339 38🇧🇯 Benin319 39🇦🇷 Argentina292 40🇹🇭 Thailand289 41🇬🇧 UK280 42🇻🇳 Viet Nam274 43🇷🇸 Serbia271 44🇵🇪 Peru262

Mapped: The 10 Hottest and Coldest Countries in the World

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Mapped: The 10 Hottest and Coldest Countries in the World

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This visualization shows the world’s hottest and coldest countries (and some territories) by their average temperature in 2022. Data for both the graphic and article has been sourced from the World Bank, accessed via Trading Economics.

Ranked: Average Temperature in 2022, by Country or Territory

Burkina Faso’s average annual temperature stands just past 29 °C (84.7 °F), making it the hottest country by this metric.

RankCountryAverage Temperature
(2022, °C)Average Temperature
(2022, °F) 1🇧🇫 Burkina Faso29.384.7 2🇲🇱 Mali29.284.6 3🇶🇦 Qatar29.184.4 4🇸🇳 Senegal29.084.2 5🇦🇪 UAE28.984.0 6🇲🇷 Mauritania28.984.0 7🇧🇭 Bahrain28.883.8 8🇦🇼 Aruba28.883.8 9🇩🇯 Djibouti28.683.5 10🇬🇲 Gambia28.583.3 11🇧🇯 Benin28.182.6 12🇲🇻 Maldives28.182.6 13🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau28.182.6 14🇰🇾 Cayman Islands28.082.4 15🇴🇲 Oman27.982.2 16🇲🇭 Marshall Islands27.982.2 17🇰🇮 Kiribati27.882.0 18🇬🇭 Ghana27.781.9 19🇸🇬 Singapore27.781.9 20🇳🇪 Niger27.681.7 21🇰🇼 Kuwait27.681.7 22🇸🇩 Sudan27.681.7 23🇬🇺 Guam27.581.5 24🇵🇼 Palau27.581.5 25🇼🇸 Samoa27.581.5 26🇹🇬 Togo27.581.5 27🇫🇲 Micronesia27.581.5 28🇰🇳 St Kitts & Nevis27.381.1 29🇦🇸 American Samoa27.381.1 30🇹🇩 Chad27.381.1 31🇰🇭 Cambodia27.381.1 32🇲🇵 Northern Mariana Islands27.381.1 33🇱🇰 Sri Lanka27.281.0 34🇳🇬 Nigeria27.281.0 35🇸🇨 Seychelles27.180.8 36🇸🇴 Somalia27.180.8 37🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda27.180.8 38🇨🇮 Ivory Coast26.880.2 39🇻🇮 Virgin Islands26.880.2 40🇱🇨 St Lucia26.880.2 41🇹🇭 Thailand26.880.2 42🇩🇲 Dominica26.780.1 43🇸🇱 Sierra Leone26.679.9 44🇵🇭 Philippines26.679.9 45🇸🇷 Suriname26.579.7 46🇪🇷 Eritrea26.579.7 47🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia26.579.7 48🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago26.579.7 49🇧🇧 Barbados26.579.7 50🇲🇾 Malaysia26.479.5 51🇬🇩 Grenada26.379.3 52🇬🇾 Guyana26.279.2 53🇨🇺 Cuba26.179.0 54🇧🇸 Bahamas26.179.0 55🇯🇲 Jamaica26.078.8 56🇻🇨 St Vincent & the Grenadines26.078.8 57🇮🇩 Indonesia26.078.8 58🇬🇳

Map: The World’s Oldest and Youngest Countries, by Median Age

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Mapped: The World’s Oldest and Youngest Countries

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We visualize the world’s oldest and youngest countries by median age, based on 2024 estimates from the CIA World Factbook.

ℹ️ The median age is a single indicator of the age distribution of a population—where half the population is older and half is younger than the listed age.

It can help government and private companies plan for age-specific demand for goods and services from the resident population.

Ranked: Countries by Median Age in 2024

Monaco and Japan—two countries with high life expectancies and low birth rates—have some of the highest median ages (50+) in the world.

A high median age is indicative of an aging population. Without policy support, this can lead to economic ramifications.

Here are the median ages of 200+ countries and territories in the world.

RankCountry/TerritoryMedian Age 1🇲🇨 Monaco57 2🇵🇲 Saint Pierre & Miquelon51 3🇯🇵 Japan50 4🇦🇩 Andorra49 5🇮🇹 Italy48 6🇧🇱 Saint Barthelemy47 7🇭🇰 Hong Kong47 8🇪🇸 Spain47 9🇩🇪 Germany47 10🇬🇷 Greece47 11🇵🇹 Portugal46 12🇸🇮 Slovenia46 13🇵🇷 Puerto Rico46 14🇸🇲 San Marino46 15🇰🇷 South Korea46 16🇷🇴 Romania46 17🇱🇻 Latvia46 18🇱🇹 Lithuania45 19🇧🇬 Bulgaria45 20🇭🇷 Croatia45 21🇸🇭 Saint Helena45 22🇪🇪 Estonia45 23🇬🇬 Guernsey45 24🇦🇹 Austria45 25🇺🇦 Ukraine45 26🇮🇲 Isle of Man45 27🇭🇺 Hungary45 28🇧🇦 Bosnia & Herzegovina45 29🇹🇼 Taiwan45 30🇱🇮 Liechtenstein44 31🇨🇿 Czechia44 32🇨🇭 Switzerland44 33🇷🇸 Serbia44 34🇧🇲 Bermuda44 35🇲🇹 Malta44 36🇫🇮 Finland43 37🇻🇮 Virgin Islands43 38🇵🇱 Poland43 39🇸🇰 Slovakia43 40🇨🇦 Canada43 41🇫🇷 France43 42🇨🇺 Cuba43 43🇲🇴 Macau43 44🇳🇱 Netherlands42 45🇩🇰 Denmark42 46🇧🇾

Ranked: Countries with the Most Embassies Around the World

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Mapped: Countries with the Most Embassies Around the World

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It’s easy to contextualize a country’s economic might (GDP) or military prowess (military budgets), but what about diplomatic influence?

The Global Diplomacy Index by the Lowy Institute is an attempt to measure and compare diplomatic networks worldwide to understand the foreign ties that influence geopolitics.

From their 2024 update, we visualize the top 25 countries with the most embassies worldwide. Data for this graphic is current up to November 2023, and does not reflect diplomatic consequences from the Israel-Hamas war.

Ranked: Countries by Worldwide Embassy Count

China leads with 173 embassies around the world, eclipsing the U.S. (168) by just five more foreign posts.

Former colonial powers, France (158) and the UK (156) rank third and fourth respectively. Japan (152) rounds out the top five.

RankCountryEmbassies Overseas 1🇨🇳 China173 2🇺🇸 U.S.168 3🇫🇷 France158 4🇬🇧 UK156 5🇯🇵 Japan152 6🇩🇪 Germany148 7🇹🇷 Türkiye145 8🇷🇺 Russia143 9🇧🇷 Brazil135 10🇮🇳 India135 11🇮🇹 Italy124 12🇪🇸 Spain114 13🇰🇷 South Korea114 14🇳🇱 Netherlands106 15🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia104 16🇨🇭 Switzerland102 17🇨🇦 Canada98 18🇿🇦 South Africa98 19🇮🇩 Indonesia92 20🇵🇱 Poland91 21🇨🇿 Czech Republic91 22🇵🇰 Pakistan89 23🇦🇷 Argentina87 24🇭🇺 Hungary87 25🇸🇪 Sweden87
Note: As of November, 2023.

The index notes some key findings in the regional footprint of all these foreign posts as well.

For example, China has a larger diplomatic presence in Africa, East Asia, and the Pacific, while the U.S. leads in the Americas, Europe, and South Asia. This reflects the two superpowers’ trade and economic ties as well.

Meanwhile, Türkiye and India have grown their diplomatic networks the most in recent years. Interestingly, both countries prioritized Africa in their new outreach. In fact, India is a key export

Mapped: The Income Needed to Live Comfortably in Every U.S. State

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The Income Needed to Live Comfortably in Every U.S. State

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Individuals in the top 11 most expensive states in the U.S. need an annual income exceeding $100,000 to live comfortably.

This map shows how much income single adults need to live comfortably in each U.S. state. SmartAsset calculated the income needed using the cost of necessities sourced from the MIT Living Wage Calculator, last updated on Feb. 14, 2024.

In this case, “comfortable” was defined as the annual income required to cover a 50/30/20 budget, allocating 50% of earnings to necessities such as housing and utility costs, 30% to discretionary spending, and 20% to savings or investments.

Massachusetts Ranks First

Massachusetts is the most expensive state to live comfortably in. A single adult needs to make at least $116,022 annually or $55.78 per hour.

RankStateSalary needed for a single working adult 1Massachusetts$116,022 2Hawaii$113,693 3California$113,651 4New York$111,738 5Washington$106,496 6Colorado$103,293 7New Jersey$103,002 8Maryland$102,918 9Oregon$101,088 10Rhode Island$100,838 11Connecticut$100,381 12Virginia$99,965 13New Hampshire$98,093 14Arizona$97,344 15Georgia$96,886 16Alaska$96,762 17Vermont$95,763 18Illinois$95,098 19Delaware$94,141 20Utah$93,683 21Nevada$93,434 22Florida$93,309 23Maine$91,686 24Pennsylvania$91,312 25North Carolina$89,690 26Minnesota$89,232 27Idaho$88,733 28South Carolina$88,317 29Wyoming$87,651 30Texas$87,027 31Tennessee$86,403 32Indiana$85,030 33Montana$84,739 34Kansas$84,656 35Michigan$84,365 36Wisconsin$84,115 37Missouri$84,032 38Alabama$83,824 39Nebraska$83,699 40New Mexico$83,616 41Iowa$83,366 42Mississippi$82,742 43Louisiana$82,451 44South Dakota$81,453 45Ohio$80,704 45Kentucky$80,704 47North Dakota$80,538 48Oklahoma$80,413 49Arkansas$79,456 50West Virginia$78,790

West Virginia is the least expensive for a single adult, who only needs to make an estimated $37.88 per hour, or $78,790 annually.

To live comfortably on your own in the top five states, a person