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. Thats 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 ...
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Interstate 40 across TN feels like being in Saudia Arabia when you go East/West...
I noticed several of the largest economies (Japan, Germany, China, UK, India) were left off the list. I assume because none of our individual states were a close match.
Then my Superbowl champs would be the Denmark Colts. I wouldn’t mind if we had some of them Danish WOMEN.
G’day mate!
Paulie probably thinks so..
Morocco (Maine) is spelled incorrectly.
Just trying to get a rise out of CDB. "It's a flag, not a rag"
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