As I’ve noted in prior articles, I am a long time subscriber to The Economist; in fact, my current subscription runs for another 6 years. Although I always find reading The Economist enjoyable and informative, every so often it publishes something that has little real value but is, nonetheless, fascinating.
This week’s edition published a map of the United States in which it equates each state’s GDP with that of a country. For example, California, were it a country, would rank 8th in the world, with a GDP equivalent to Italy’s. New York’s GDP is equivalent to that of Australia, and Mississippi’s is that of Bangladesh.
Find out where your state ranks by visiting The Economist‘s map. The interactive version lets you run your cursor over a state and get information from a popup display.
Terrific! We rank at the bottom of the heap!
No surprise to anyone who has lived in Vermont for a while . . .
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Comment by Carolyn — January 19, 2011 @ 8:26 am |
[…] If your US state was a country, where would it fall in terms of GDP (gross domestic product)? […]
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