[p2p-research] U.S. State to Nation GDP Comparison

[Ryan]

  Sent to you by Ryan via Google Reader: U.S. State to Nation GDP
Comparison via Matador Network on 10/1/09

All statistical information herein courtesy of Strange Maps
In 2007, the US had the largest economy in the world for a single
country, outranked by a single currency only by the European Union.
As difficult as it is for us to conceptualize a trillion
(1,000,000,000,000) or even a billion (1,000,000,000), the U.S. GDP was
estimated at a staggering $13,160,000,000,000. That’s
thirteen-trillion, one-hundred and sixty-billion dollars. Too big to
fail? Some people think so.

As entertaining as it is to delve into the concept that money is a
fabrication, a symbol that we all buy into that doesn’t exist in any
practical sense, we believe in it like kids do Santa. It’s real when we
can’t afford to eat or go to the doctor or buy a house. Though this map
can’t give us an idea of the quality of life for those around the
world, it’s interesting to think of the fairly cushy life in the US
where someone dying of starvation is a freak occurrence as opposed to
the lives of others in nations with far fewer resources.

You have to wonder how many of these countries allow big business to
dictate the cost of the well being of their people, like the insurance
industry seems to be doing in the U.S. If the U.S. is the richest
nation around, it serves us to think about the cost that the people of
the U.S. and other nations worldwide pay for that astonishing figure.
Perhaps that’s a map for another day.

As Strange Maps states (I only used their information) this map is
inaccurate as the numbers don’t reflect the per capita GDP, rather the
gross GDP, and so the relative comfort and wealth of the people in any
given country here as it compares to that of the US citizens of the
corresponding state will bear no correlation.

So with much credit to those at Strange Maps, the following are the
numbers and key to the map you see above.
State - Nation –GDP - Worldwide Ranking
California - France — $2,150, 000,000,000 (trillion) - #8
Texas - Canada — $1,080,000,000,000 (trillion) - #10
Florida - South Korea’s — $786,000,000,000 - #13
Illinois – Mexico — $741,000,000,000 - #14
New Jersey – Russia - $733,000,000,000 - #15
Ohio – Australia — $645,000,000,000 - #16
New York – Brazil — $621,000,000,000 - #17
Pennsylvania – Netherlands — $613,000,000,000 - #18
Georgia – Switzerland — $387,000,000,000 - #19
North Carolina – Sweden — $371,000,000,000 - #20
Massachusetts – Belgium — $368,000,000,000 - #21
Washington – Turkey — $358,000,000,000 - #22
Virginia – Austria — $309,000,000,000 - #24
Tennessee – Saudi Arabia - $286,000,000,000 - #25
Missouri – Poland — $265,000,000,000 - #26
Louisiana – Indonesia — $264,000,000,000 - #27
Minnesota – Norway — $262,000,000,000 - #28
Indiana – Denmark — $256,000,000,000 - #29
Connecticut – Greece — $222,000,000,000 - #30
Michigan – Argentina — $210,000,000,000 - #31
Nevada – Ireland — $203,000,000,000 - #32
Wisconsin – South Africa - $200,000,000,000 - #33
Arizona – Thailand - $197,000,000,000 - # 34
Colorado – Finland — $196,000,000,000 - #35
Alabama – Iran — $195,000,000,000 - #36
Maryland – Hong Kong — $187,000,000,000 - #37
Kentucky – Portugal — $177,000,000,000 - #38
Iowa – Venezuela — $148,000,000,000 - #39
Kansas – Malaysia — $132,000,000,000 - #40
Arkansas – Pakistan — $124,000,000,000 - #41
Oregon – Israel — $122,000,000,000 - #42
South Carolina – Singapore — $121,000,000,000 - #43
Nebraska – Czech Republic — $119,000,000,000 - #44
New Mexico – Hungary — $113,000,000,000 - #45
Mississippi – Chile — $100,000,000,000 - #48
DC – New Zealand — $99,000,000,000 - #49
Oklahoma – Philippines — $98,000,000,000 - #50
West Virginia – Algeria — $92,000,000,000 - #51
Hawaii – Nigeria — $83,000,000,000 - #53
Idaho – Ukraine — $81,000,000,000 - #54
Delaware – Romania — $79,000,000,000 - #55
Utah – Peru — $76,000,000,000 - #56
New Hampshire – Bangladesh — $69,000,000,000 - #57
Maine – Morocco — $57,000,000,000 - #59
Rhode Island – Vietnam — $48,000,000,000 - #61
South Dakota – Croatia — $37,000,000,000 - #66
Montana – Tunisia — $33,000,000,000 - #69
North Dakota – Ecuador — $32,000,000,000 - #70
Alaska – Belarus — $29 ,000,000,000 - #73
Vermont – Dominican Republic — $20,000,000,000 - #81
Wyoming – Uzbekistan — $11,000,000,000 - #101

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