U.S. State to Nation GDP Comparison
All statistical information herein courtesy of Strange Maps
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.
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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Are you Polish? Your number for Polish GDP is quadrupled, you’re making it seem twice as rich as Canada.
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Really nice map and quite interesting insight here. I thought it was unusual though that you notice how cushy and rich we are as a nation, but in the next paragraph, lament that corporations dictate the cost of well-being. If that’s the case, aren’t they dictating pretty well in this country? Maybe poverty elsewhere is due to the lack of freedoms corporations enjoy there. China has even less restrictions than we do and companies flock there to do business, where there has been a tremendous growth in wealth in the last 20 years. It can’t be both ways: the corporations are evil and makes us all poor AND that we live hugely rich lives. Your map itself illustrates this.
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Actually, though I appreciate what you’re saying here, I’m not contradicting myself.
The fact is that since we all eat and feel that the majority of outr needs are being met, we fail to see the ways that our country falls short.
Our government is aware that is we are sated with television and fast food that should keep us quiet. It’s pretty insidious the way that the insurance industry dictates how healthy we can be. Heaven help you if you are struck by serious illness or injury and find yourself without insurance. The emphasis is not on prevention. People are hospitalized or sent to the emergency room for things that could have been prevented or treated cheaply if they weren’t afraid to go to the doctor and the fear is for the money more than for their own health.
Our priorities are completely screwed in this instance.
I recommend watching this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/06/keith-olbermann-to-delive_n_311125.html
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This is awesome, Kate.
And bonus–you slapped a maple leaf on Texas! I love it!
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Merci beaucoup!
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Wow Kate. The map is on point. Great work
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This is a very cool map and you did an awesome job with it, but a lot of the figures that Strange Maps are wrong according to the US Department of Commerce/Bureau of Economic Analysis.
The actual figures are as follows, with the corresponding country with the closest GDP (nominal) according to the International Monetary Fund’s figures:
1. California-1,801,762,000,000 – #7 Italy
2. Texas-1,148,531,000,000 – #11 Russia
3. New York-1,105,020,000,000 – #12 India
4. Florida-741,861,000,000 – #15 Mexico
5. Illinois-617,409,000,000 – #16 Netherlands
6. Pennsylvania-533,212,000,000 – #17 Turkey
7. Ohio-462,506,000,000 – #18 Sweden
8. New Jersey-461,295,000,000 – #19 Belgium
9. Georgia-391,241,000,000 – #22 Poland
10. North Carolina-390,467,000,000 – #23 Norway
11. Virginia-384,132,000,000 – #24 Taiwan
12. Michigan-379,934,000,000 – #25 Saudi Arabia
13. Massachusetts-352,178,000,000 – #26 Austria
14. Washington-310,279,000,000 – #28 Denmark
15. Maryland-264,426,000,000 – #30 South Africa
16. Minnesota-252,472,000,000 – #31 Argentina
17. Indiana-249,229,000,000 – #32 Ireland
18. Arizona-245,952,000,000 – #33 Thailand
19. Tennessee-245,162,000,000 – #34 Finland
20. Colorado-235,848,000,000 – #35 Venezuela
21. Wisconsin-233,406,000,000 – #36 Portugal
22. Missouri-229,027,000,000 – #37 United Arab Emirates
23. Connecticut-212,252,000,000 – #38 Malaysia
24. Louisiana-207,407,000,000 – #39 Czech Republic
25. Alabama-164,524,000,000 – #42 Romania
26. Oregon-158,268,000,000 – #43 Chile
27. Kentucky-152,099,000,000 – #44 Israel
28. South Carolina-151,703,000,000 – #46 – Philippines
29. Oklahoma-136,374,000,000 – #49 Hungary
30. Iowa-129,911,000,000 – #51 New Zealand
31. Nevada-129,314,000,000 – #52 Egypt
32. Kansas-116,986,000,000 – #53 Kuwait
33. Utah-105,574,000,000 – #54 Peru
34. Arkansas-95,116,000,000 – #55 Kazakhstan
35. District of Columbia-92,516,000,000 – #56 Slovakia
36. Mississippi-87,652,000,000 – #57 Morocco
37. Nebraska-80,360,000,000 – #58 Bangladesh
38. New Mexico-75,192,000,000 – #59 Vietnam
39. Hawaii-62,019,000,000 – #60 Qatar
40. Delaware-61,545,000,000 – #61 Angola
41. West Virginia-57,877,000,000 – #62 Libya
42. New Hampshire-57,820,000,000 – #63 Croatia
43. Idaho-52,110,000,000 – #64 Luxembourg
44. Maine-48,021,000,000 – #65 Sudan
45. Rhode Island-46,699,000,000 – #66 Slovenia
46. Alaska-44,887,000,000 – #67 Belarus
47. South Dakota-35,211,000,000 – #75 Tunisia
48. Montana-34,266,000,000 – #76 Guatemala
49. Wyoming-31,544,000,000 – #77 Azerbaijan
50. North Dakota-28,518,000,000 – #79 Kenya
51. Vermont-24,627,000,000 – #83 Lebanon↵
