Countries GDP as US States

I used to be French, but now I’m Belgian-much better beer.

Countries Economic output as US States

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“We’ll try to stay serene and calm
When Alabama gets the bomb!”

– Tom Lehrer

Damn, I used to drink local California wine. Now I am forced to drink French wine?

France population: 60,876,136 (July 2006 est.)
California population: 37,444,385 (mid 2006 est)

Family name notwithstanding I’ll take California.

Unless I am very much mistaken, the “snark” about Norway comes from the source of the chart, who is Norwegian. Presumably he knows what he is talking about.

What I find remarkable is that the seventh most populous country in the world (Bangladesh) has an economy the size of the 49th most populous state (Vermont.) The 13th most populous country in the world (Vietnam) has an economy the size of the smallest state by landmass (Rhode Island).

I live in Tennessee. When I saw this map I called the drillers, but Mrs. OldVet says she’s not going to wear a veil and she’s moving to California if I don’t get that rig out of the front yard.

Actually, I did not create this chart. I received it from a Norwegian friend who got it from a presentation given by “The York Group International Inc.”:http://www.theyorkgroup.com.

India is missing. So is China. Probably because their GDP is bigger than any U.S. state.

Carl

Good stuff!

You just didn’t look close enough… China’s right there… see it?… in Arkansas, up in the northwest part. Surely you see it. You’re not blind are you?

And, India, it’s there too… up at that part of New York down on the ocean… You know!… the giant city at the extreme western end of Long Island? It’s all over that place like white on rice.

Wait, Ohio has a bigger economy than all of Australia?

I just did a one year contracting gig up in Ohio… that’s kind of hard to imagine.

Having spent time in the south and the east Ohio is an economic wasteland by comparison. It’s hard for me to imagine it bests all of OZ.

Well, the comparisons are not that solid. For instance, TX is $200 B smaller than Canada. Ecuador is 50% larger than North Dakota. Based on 2005 GSP data from the BEA and 2005 GDP data from the IMF, this is a more accurate comparison, in $ US billions:

Entity GDP
United States 12455.83
Japan 4567.44
Germany 2791.74
China 2234.13
United Kingdom 2229.47
France 2126.72
Italy 1765.54
California 1621.84 *
Canada 1132.44
Spain 1126.57
Texas 982.40 *
New York 963.47 *
Brazil 795.67
Korea 787.57
India 771.95
Mexico 768.44
Russia 763.29
Australia 708.52
Florida 674.05 *
Netherlands 629.91
Illinois 560.24 *
Pennsylvania 487.17 *
Ohio 442.44 *
New Jersey 430.79 *
Michigan 377.90 *
Belgium 3 71.70
Switzerland 367.57
Georgia 364.31 *
Turkey 362.46
Sweden 358.81
Virginia 352.75 *
Taiwan 346.18
North Carolina 344.64 *
Massachusetts 328.54 *
Saudi Arabia 309.95
Austria 305.34
Poland 303.23
Norway 295.67
Indonesia 281.26
Washington 268.50 *
Denmark 259.64
Maryland 244.90 *
South Africa 239.42
Indiana 238.64 *
Minnesota 233.29 *
Tennessee 226.50 *
Greece 225.59
Wisconsin 217.54 *
Missouri 216.07 *
Colorado 216.06 *
Arizona 215.76 *
Ireland 200.77
Finland 196.05
Connecticut 194.47 *
Iran 192.35
Portugal 183.62
Argentina 181.55
Hong Kong SAR 177.70
Thailand 173.13
Louisiana 166.31 *
Alabama 149.80 *
Oregon 145.35 *
Kentucky 140.36 *
South Carolina 139.77 *
Venezuela 132.85
Malaysia 130.84
Israel 129.84
UAE 129.64
Czech Republic 124.31
Colombia 122.27
Oklahoma 120.55 *
Singapore 116.78
Chile 115.31
Iowa 114.29 *
Pakistan 110.97
Nevada 110.55 *
Hungary 109.20
New Zealand 108.52
Kansas 105.45 *
Algeria 102.03
Nigeria 99.15
Romania 98.57
Philippines 98.37
Utah 89.84 *
Egypt 89.48
Arkansas 86.80 *
Ukraine 82.88
Washington, DC 82.78 *
Mississippi 80.20 *
Peru 79.39
Kuwait 74.60
Nebraska 70.26 *
New Mexico 69.32 *
Bangladesh 60.81
Kazakhstan 56.09
New Hampshire 55.69 *
Delaware 54.35 *
West Virginia 53.78 *
Hawaii 53.71 *
Morocco 51.62
Vietnam 51.39
Slovak Republic 47.46
Idaho 47.18 *
Maine 45.07 *
Rhode Island 43.79 *
Alaska 39.87 *
Libya 38.74
Croatia 38.51
Luxembourg 36.53
Ecuador 36.49
Qatar 34.34
Slovenia 34.03
Angola 32.81
South Dakota 31.07 *
Oman 30.73
Montana 29.85 *
Belarus 29.57
Dominican Rep. 29.09
Tunisia 28.67
Sudan 27.54
Wyoming 27.42 *
Guatemala 27.37
Syria 27.30
Bulgaria 26.72
Lithuania 25.50
North Dakota 24.18 *
Serbia 24.06
Sri Lanka 23.53
Vermont 23.13 *
Lebanon 22.05
Costa Rica 19.99
Kenya 18.73

http://bea.gov/bea/newsrel/gspnewsrelease.htm
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GDP does’nt say that much about a country, GDP per capita explains things a little better:

Rank Country GDP (PPP)$ per capita
1 Luxembourg 69,800
2 Norway 42,364
3 United States 41,399
4 Ireland 40,610
5 Iceland 35,115
6 Denmark 34,740
7 Canada 34,273
8 Hong Kong 33,479
9 Austria 33,432
10 Switzerland 32,571
11 Qatar 31,397
12 Belgium 31,244
13 Finland 31,208
14 Australia 30,897
15 Netherlands 30,862

But if your interested in how a country is to live in, its the Human Development Index you should look at:

1. Norway 0.965 (=)
2. Iceland 0.960 (=)
3. Australia 0.957 (=)
4. Ireland 0.956 (↑ 4)
5. Sweden 0.951 (↑ 1)
6. Canada 0.950 (↓ 1)
7. Japan 0.949 (↑ 4)
8. United States 0.948 (↑ 2)
9. Switzerland 0.947 (↓ 2)
10. Netherlands 0.947 (↑ 2)
11. Finland 0.947 (↑ 2)
12. Luxembourg 0.945 (↓ 8)
13. Belgium 0.945 (↓ 4)
14. Austria 0.944 (↑ 3)
15. Denmark 0.943 (↓ 1)

And what’s this about U.S companys not expanding to Norway? Well, I suppose Google, Sun, IBM, Microsoft and their kind don’t really count, because, uhm, Norway are one of the only countrys in Europe that those companys has anything more than a sales/PR functions. wtf?

A rather confusing map. The methodology was not explained.
Thanks to all the posters that contributed with more information. We can see that Norway is doing all right, according to the other numbers.

Countries GDP as US States

Countries GDP as US States

Naturally one has to be amused by such stats games but realise that GDP vs populaton says NADA about real distribution, i.e. a theoretical country could have all income in the hands of an oligarchy and most of the people could be starving or it could be distributed in a more equitable manner and thus, overall would be healthier and gthus richer which naturally brings me to Norway, a country which was rated by the U.N. as having by far the best environment to live in with the best health, chance to live longer, get better educated , live in better housing and on and on..Canada was a near miss in that stat by the way which is where I live. Norway has put aside something extraordinary like 650 billion dollars for an investment fund from their oil and gas revenues so that when they run out, Norway will be able to maintain the good fortune of their local non-renewable resource. Corporations move to where the tax structure is low, employee costs are insignificant and thus, profits are high. They do not move to good and healthy societies if they can find an improverished place to plant their fat asses. Norway is not such a place and thus, have to work harder at providing real reasons to go ther and their educated population is one of the reasons that high tech is to be found there. This is also true for Canada and in this country they cannot find sufficient workers who are skilled to take the jobs that are going unfilled.A healthy universally supplied medicare system, inexepensive education, good housing and so forth in Canada is not reflected in seeing our GDP compared to a Texas where there are incredibly rich and incredibly poor folks living within the state. One has to look for real poverty in Canada which though it is present reflects a tiny proportion of the overall population and is always being addressed rather than hidden from view. Norway as I understand it, has NONE. Good for them and they do deserve to be number one in terms of quality of life for that reason.

One wonders what PPP estimate is used for Norway, as it is one of the most expensive countries in the world to live in. I suspect the “true” real income per capita in Norway is substantially lower than in the US. Last year UBS published a survey suggesting that Oslo was the most expensive city in the world based on the price of a basket of 122 goods and services.

And why do people jump on Norway? Because for a bunch of people who got lucky with oil, they sure talk like they pulled themselves up with their bootstraps and if only the rest of the world would do like they do we could have the same results.

croatia (38.5) is paired with south dakota (31) (is that s dakota?); so we produce sign. more. okay, we have about 4-5 times more inhabitants blah blah… interesting text nevertheless

For me this shows benefits of linguistic/cultural diversity and national identity. All countries mapped over U.S. have their own significant feel, but most of the states beneath them are quite bland in comparison. My Finland, for example is on Colorado. What’s in Colorado? They have as much people and GDP, but what else? Why they exist? Is the GDP used to build better Colorado for future? What kind of people are Coloradoans? Do they have history, a story of their people? Probably they do, but it is kind of diminished under the whole U.S. story, and in that story only rare Coloradoan can feel herself significant.

It’s a family affair

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Interesting: now what I’d love to see is the GDP of the states compared to the world’s biggest companies…

Countries GDP As US States

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“What I find remarkable is that the seventh most populous country in the world (Bangladesh) has an economy the size of the 49th most populous state (Vermont.)”

Actually, Bangladesh points to New Hampshire (about 40-41 population wise) and Dominican Rep points to Vermont.

An aside, Australia is about the size of the US with a population about equal to California. Lotsa room to expand, if they would let people in…..

The problem with the Human Development Index is that it includes non-objective factors which means the appraisers get to say what they like or don’t like. It thus reflects their personal political views. Now some one says socialist medicine is better. Those of us who have lived in socialsed systems might disagree. US health care costs more becaouse on average Americans buy a lot more health care. Socialist health care costs less per person because they ration it and simply refuse services which are almost routine in the US. That is if you compare the amount spent on health care per person.

Americans also spend more on entertainment than most other nations. That is not called an entertainement crisis because they do. It is immediately understood that this is because they get a lot more entertainment. Ditto for cars. Americans spend a hell of a lot more per person on cars than do Nigerians. That doesn’t mean the Nigerians are better off. Only when it comes to health do people suddenly invent this standard that spending less is more.

I’ve created a variant of the map that compares groupins of US States to the top 5 GDP countries.

http://tjic.com/?p=5076

States vs. Nations

[source, source, source, source] An interesting picture that compares the GDP of various nations with the GDP of various states….

Countries like Greece have a large black economy. Its GDP does not include the estimated black ‘Hidden’ economy. It is estimated that another 50% of its GDP makes up its total economy. So $225 + $112.5 =$337.5BN! and with a population of around 10 million GDP per Capita brings it to $33,700 which would put Greece in the top 10 richest Nations on earth!

The Term GDP is only one measurement of several important economic indicators to watch.
PPP measurements are more accurate and when one uses PPP GDP in the equation, the U.S. econony makes up less then 20% of World Economic Totals. IN truth the European Union has the World’s largest economy and China is coming fast but they should because with over one billon people, their PPP per capita incomes are only $5,000 per head and their gini-index is rising with a huge rich-poor gap.
The U.S. has huge Current Account deficits, Government Deficits and consumer debts.
For each new dollar of economic Growth the U.S. economy is adding 6 dollars of new debt which means we are selling our assets to Europe and Asia to finance ourselves. We have become a debtor nation and are taking on the Characteristics of a Colony.
Our average life expectency(U.S.) is ranked 48th in the World and our Healthcare system is 37th for example.
The country is vastly overinflated and that is why we are selling our wealth off to foreign investors.
Does not look good for the next generation at all!
We have lost most of our Manufacturing base which made us a wealthy country and The European Union with over 34 million manufacturing jobs and the Chinese(also a very large manufacturing power for low technology goods)are becoming richer compared to the U.S. which totals 14 million Manufacturing jobs, obviously the U.S. is in no economic situation to dominate anything!
There is many different ways to judge an economy!

I would like to emphasize that the European Union has the greatest economic out put in the world. Yes, the European Union and not the United States. Other than that just look at what is going on in the world and you will see that the US is loosing ground in many aspects. The USD is loosing ground to the EUR. As Shoey pointed out very wisely there are way more manufacuring jobs in Europe and China.

People always say that China is a great polluter but just look at the US. This country did not sign the Qioto treaty, the US is actually the largest polluter in the world. On the other hand the Eropean Union is trying to apply renewable enegy sources in its economy. For example Sweden is on the best way to do away with its oil needs by 2020.

Another thing, the US seems to have an immense burden on its economy: its army. And this army proves to be absolutely useless in conflicts like Iraq.

Bottom line is, there is no reason to talk about American superioriy whatever, because no such thing exists. The US is most certainly a major player in the world economy but nothing more.

Oh, and one more thing. As I remember the US was a beloved and very sympathetic country in the 70s and 80s. It was the leader of the free world and so on… Now it is not an exagerration if I say that the majority of the worlds population simply hate the United States or at least considers it a major global threat. The US is kind of bullying around in the world, but you might remember from scool, those bullies always got what they deserved at the end of the day. And I dont mean that they got beaten up whatever, they simply were not admitted to university, if you see my point… :)

The map comes from Denmark, not the US

its a fun approximation, not a hard set of numbers

chill, dude

Hey,
I’ve just made up a similar map, but for Europe and based on GDP / capita.
http://blog.localingo.com/2007/03/09/map-of-non-european-countries-gdp-per-capita-as-europe-countries/
Keep me updated…
Best,
John

I’m sorry, it was to be something like that:
What would be really interesting is information about average salary compared to a price of some basket of products and services that constitute monthly expenses. Than we would see who can save the most money. So we would see the perfect country to emigrate to for a couple of years and then come back home with savings.

US map with country labels

How do the economies each of the United States compare to other countries? Click the title and find out
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Countries GDP as US States nice article about countries economy but i think american economy is much better than others.

other strange map, world web map, websites traffic is correlated with the surface of the countries:
http://explomap.free.fr/world/

out of context but fun to look at

Agree. A nice posting and good to look at.