Posted on 06/11/2007 6:45:35 PM PDT by LiberalBassTurds
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 is 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at strangemaps.wordpress.com ...
California as France is either humiliating or appropos, I guess depending on your outlook. :) That thing between Vietnam and Bangladesh really ought to be Cuba.
THat’s fascinating!
Does that mean I’m going to start getting emails in ALL CAPS from some dude in Hawaii?
Don’t know if you have seen this yet. Interesting comparisons and some stupid ones. I didn’t see China or Japan on the list though.
Ping!
I’m movin’.
F*R*A*N*C*E
I’m thinkin’ Australia.
Bwah ha ha ha!!!!!
What a great post.
France = California
I wonder what it is in Tennessee that would equate it with Saudi Arabia?
Nice catch! Very interesting. No wonder the world hates us./sarc.
No fair! New Mexico gets Hungary? I want Arizona to be Hungary. lol
What could be more humiliating? Iran as Mississippi. That's humiliation. (Apologies to y'all Rebs from a Yankee).
Interesting. Michigan shown as Argentina.
France and California — both make money selling wine, too...
I note that there is no China on this map. That might throw some cold water on all of our fun if we laid that monster on our map.
Australia as Ohio, not bad, high in the middle and round on both ends.
bttt
Graet map—thanks for the ping. And I would rather be in the Pine Barrens than in Camden.
...today the external recruiter called and said that they really liked me, and I should expect a job offer in a couple of days. :-)
I may be leaving my exile soon (see my FR homepage.)
Cheers!
Ohio population 11.5 million, Aussies 20 million. She’ll be right mate, have a beer, I’ll throw a T bone on the barbie for ya.
It somehow appropriate that Alaska is assigned Belarus, which I read means “Little Russia”.
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