Map: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs

[lordroel]

Map: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs



Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a convenient way of measuring and comparing the size of national economies. Annual GDP represents the market value of all goods and services produced within a country in a year. Put differently:

GDP = consumption + investment + government spending + (exports – imports)

Although the economies of countries like China and India are growing at an incredible rate, the US remains the nation with the highest GDP in the world – and by far: US GDP was projected to be $13,22 trillion (or $13.220 billion) in 2007, according to this source. That’s almost as much as the economies of the next four (Japan, Germany, China, UK) combined.

The creator of this map has had the interesting idea to break down that gigantic US GDP into the GDPs of individual states, and compare those to other countries’ GDP. What follows, is this slightly misleading map – misleading, because the economies both of the US states and of the countries they are compared with are not weighted for their respective populations.

Pakistan, for example, has a GDP that’s slightly higher than Israel’s – but Pakistan has a population of about 170 million, while Israel is only 7 million people strong. The US states those economies are compared with (Arkansas and Oregon, respectively) are much closer to each other in population: 2,7 million and 3,4 million.

And yet, wile a per capita GDP might give a good indication of the average wealth of citizens, a ranking of the economies on this map does serve two interesting purposes: it shows the size of US states’ economies relative to each other (California is the biggest, Wyoming the smallest), and it links those sizes with foreign economies (which are therefore also ranked: Mexico’s and Russia’s economies are about equal size, Ireland’s is twice as big as New Zealand’s). Here’s a run-down of the 50 states, plus DC:

List of states and the countries they would be depending on their GDP

1: California, it is often said, would be the world’s sixth- or seventh-largest economy if it were a separate country. Actually, that would be the eighth, according to this map, as France (with a GDP of $2,15 trillion) is #8 on the aforementioned list.
2: Texas’ economy is significantly smaller, exactly half of California’s, as its GDP compares to that of Canada (#10, $1,08 trillion).
3: Florida also does well, with its GDP comparable to Asian tiger South Korea’s (#13 at $786 billion).
4: Illinois – Mexico (GDP #14 at $741 billion)
5: New Jersey – Russia (GDP #15 at $733 billion)
6: Ohio – Australia (GDP #16 at $645 billion)
7: New York – Brazil (GDP #17 at $621 billion)
8: Pennsylvania – Netherlands (GDP #18 at $613 billion)
9: Georgia – Switzerland (GDP #19 at $387 billion)
10: North Carolina – Sweden (GDP #20 at $371 billion)
11: Massachusetts – Belgium (GDP #21 at $368 billion)
12: Washington – Turkey (GDP #22 at $358 billion)
13: Virginia – Austria (GDP #24 at $309 billion)
14:Tennessee – Saudi Arabia (GDP #25 at $286 billion)
15: Missouri – Poland (GDP #26 at $265 billion)
16: Louisiana – Indonesia (GDP #27 at $264 billion)
17: Minnesota – Norway (GDP #28 at $262 billion)1
18: Indiana – Denmark (GDP #29 at $256 billion)
19: Connecticut – Greece (GDP #30 at $222 billion)
20: Michigan – Argentina (GDP #31 at $210 billion)
21: Nevada – Ireland (GDP #32 at $203 billion)
22: Wisconsin – South Africa (GDP #33 at $200 billion)
23: Arizona – Thailand (GDP #34 at $197 billion)
24: Colorado – Finland (GDP #35 at $196 billion)
25: Alabama – Iran (GDP #36 at $195 billion)
26: Maryland – Hong Kong (#37 at $187 billion GDP)
27: Kentucky – Portugal (GDP #38 at $177 billion)
28: Iowa – Venezuela (GDP #39 at $148 billion)
29: Kansas – Malaysia (GDP #40 at $132 billion)
30: Arkansas – Pakistan (GDP #41 at $124 billion)
31: Oregon – Israel (GDP #42 at $122 billion)
32: South Carolina – Singapore (GDP #43 at $121 billion)
33: Nebraska – Czech Republic (GDP #44 at $119 billion)
34: New Mexico – Hungary (GDP #45 at $113 billion)
35: Mississippi – Chile (GDP #48 at $100 billion)
36: DC – New Zealand (#49 at $99 billion GDP)
37: Oklahoma – Philippines (GDP #50 at $98 billion)
38: West Virginia – Algeria (GDP #51 at $92 billion)
39: Hawaii – Nigeria (GDP #53 at $83 billion)
40: Idaho – Ukraine (GDP #54 at $81 billion)
41: Delaware – Romania (#55 at $79 billion GDP)
42: Utah – Peru (GDP #56 at $76 billion)
43: New Hampshire – Bangladesh (GDP #57 at $69 billion)
44: Maine – Morocco (GDP #59 at $57 billion)
45: Rhode Island – Vietnam (GDP #61 at $48 billion)
46: South Dakota – Croatia (GDP #66 at $37 billion)
47: Montana – Tunisia (GDP #69 at $33 billion)
48: North Dakota – Ecuador (GDP #70 at $32 billion)
49: Alaska – Belarus (GDP #73 at $29 billion)
50: Vermont – Dominican Republic (GDP #81 at $20 billion)
51: Wyoming – Uzbekistan (GDP #101 at $11 billion)

[stevep]

Lordroel

The bit that really surprised me was New Jersey? I was wondering why Russia, with its massive minerial resources if nothing else counted so little then realised its nore that New Jersey is rated so highly. Does it really have a larger economy that places like Ohio, Pennsylvania and most of all New York? I would have thought that the latter especially would have been higher up the list?

  Steve

[lordroel]

Jun 10, 2017 23:01:05 GMT stevep said:

Lordroel

The bit that really surprised me was New Jersey? I was wondering why Russia, with its massive minerial resources if nothing else counted so little then realised its nore that New Jersey is rated so highly. Does it really have a larger economy that places like Ohio, Pennsylvania and most of all New York? I would have thought that the latter especially would have been higher up the list?

  Steve

You do have to remember that Russia is currently under sanctions due its annexation of the Crimea, thus that maybe the reason why it has a GDP of comparable to New Jersey.

[stevep]

Jun 11, 2017 2:53:30 GMT lordroel said:

Jun 10, 2017 23:01:05 GMT stevep said:

Lordroel

The bit that really surprised me was New Jersey? I was wondering why Russia, with its massive minerial resources if nothing else counted so little then realised its nore that New Jersey is rated so highly. Does it really have a larger economy that places like Ohio, Pennsylvania and most of all New York? I would have thought that the latter especially would have been higher up the list?

  Steve

You do have to remember that Russia is currently under sanctions due its annexation of the Crimea, thus that maybe the reason why it has a GDP of comparable to New Jersey.

  Sorry about the late reply but internet access problems yesterday. OK today - for the  moment at least, crossing fingers etc.

  I didn't mean the relative GDPs of the nation states.  I meant the GDPs of the US states.  I.e. that New Jersey has a higher GDP than larger and I believe more populous states, especially New York.

[lordroel]

Jun 12, 2017 14:39:45 GMT stevep said:

Jun 11, 2017 2:53:30 GMT lordroel said:

You do have to remember that Russia is currently under sanctions due its annexation of the Crimea, thus that maybe the reason why it has a GDP of comparable to New Jersey.

  Sorry about the late reply but internet access problems yesterday. OK today - for the  moment at least, crossing fingers etc.

  I didn't mean the relative GDPs of the nation states.  I meant the GDPs of the US states.  I.e. that New Jersey has a higher GDP than larger and I believe more populous states, especially New York.

And New York ends up with Brazil if i see correct.