[Sixstrings]

I thought this was interesting. Helps give one some perspective about where America ranks with other nations.

For one, notice that New York alone equals Russia's entire GDP. Florida is comparable to Australia, while West Virginia is compares to Slovakia, lol.

I'm surprised Italy is as big as California, I've always heard Cali is the "4th largest economy in the world" or some such.

(moderators: yes, it's a big pic but it's black and white downloads fast)

[kublikhan]

That's pretty cool. So strange to see Russia fit into the state of New York. I too thought they had a larger economy than 1 US state. On the other hand I thought Illinois would be bigger than the Netherlands. It seems fairly accurate though. Here are the numbers if you wanted to compare them:
US States' GDP

Nations' GDP

[Quinny]

The thing that jumped out at me was that the food producing midwest were all third world countries!

[Sixstrings]

I thought Illinois would be bigger than the Netherlands.

There's some money in the Netherlands. Don't forget that in times past, the Dutch had a major global trading empire, before being eclipsed by the British.

[jlw61]

The thing that jumped out at me was that the food producing midwest were all third world countries!

I'm not surprised because I don't know many rich farmers and produce, meat and grain is still reatively cheap. You get a lot more GDP from a little IT, financing and manufacturing than from a lot of farming.

[ohanian]

No wonder, America is in trouble for the last 8 years.

The boys from Brazil is running the show.

[Daniel_Plainview]

Wonder what that map will look like in 2010 after the US economy collapses.

[emersonbiggins]

Wonder what that map will look like in 2010 after the US economy collapses.

50 instances of "Bangladesh"

[IslandCrow]

Wonder what that map will look like in 2010 after the US economy collapses.

Maybe much the same. I have a feeling that we will not let you collapse on your own.

Anyway I am rooting for you Arizona. Any place that goes from AZ covers it all.

[Plantagenet]

Bad call equating Alaska's GDP with very poor and densely populated Equador....Why not Qatar?....an oil-rich state with a small population and about the same GDP.

[TheDude]

Not per capita, giving a misleading impression. Went after the original source: 131 - US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs « Strange Maps. Curiously enough the map therein is different than this one. Tennessee is now = Saudi Arabia, which no doubt would horrify denizens of TN. AK = Belarus. Gets worse and worse for you guys!

[Tyler_JC]

Belarus has almost ten million people.

Alaska has less than 700,000.

Each Alaskan earns more than twelve times as much money as each Belarus citizen. I'd say they are doing pretty well.

[Nickel]

You guys are forgetting that an awful lot of what you consider "Gross Domestic Product" is, in fact, predicated on the money you're borrowing from other countries, converting through various means, and then claiming as domestic growth and output. This map is gigantically illusory.

[Consensi]

I thought this was interesting. Helps give one some perspective about where America ranks with other nations.

I read somewhere that the entire US GDP during the Great Depression was less than that of Bulgaria (then).

[Javaman]

Not per capita, giving a misleading impression. Went after the original source: 131 - US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs « Strange Maps. Curiously enough the map therein is different than this one. Tennessee is now = Saudi Arabia, which no doubt would horrify denizens of TN. AK = Belarus. Gets worse and worse for you guys!

Most rural North Dakotans should be almost as well off as most rural Minnesotans, so the Kenya-Austria and Ecuador-Norway comparisons seem flawed, to put it mildly.

I remember reading somewhere that the average German lives about as well as the average Arkansan, which seems somewhat plausible.

We don't see "Germany" anywhere on these maps since no one state has the GDP of Germany. Both of the maps are very misleading at best.

[Sixstrings]

You guys are forgetting that an awful lot of what you consider "Gross Domestic Product" is, in fact, predicated on the money you're borrowing from other countries, converting through various means, and then claiming as domestic growth and output. This map is gigantically illusory

That money we borrow is, in effect, a global tax benefitting the US on the rest of the world.

Ain't Empire grand? We'll see how long it goes on, sigh.