Jan 17, 2011
U.S. map labeling each state with a country that has a similar-sized economy
(Get more info at The Economist.)
Looking at this map makes me pretty happy that we are united states.
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Poor Minnesota. I feel sorry for you, not that you are compared to Thailand, but that you are compared with Indiana. I’m from Indiana. They say boys in NYC want to grow up to be Yankees. Boys in Texas want to grow up to be cowboys, boys in LA want to grow up and be movie stars. Boys in Indiana just want to grow up and move away.
I knew Texas had a big economy, but the same size as Russia’s? Wow.
romania?! hopefully the comparative economy doesn’t come with vampires!
and i don’t mean the sparkly ones. they can stay in comparative greece.
I wonder where China would fit? Oh yeah, forget that. “The United States of America is a caption on THEIR map.
Not true. They were saying the same thing about Japan 20 years ago, and the Soviet Union before that. China’s GDP is much lower than the US’s. They are already screwing things up by trying to reign in their earlier market reforms.
Wait, and the USA is still in debt? Makes me glad to be a Canadian.
Go Canada! I swear, one day I’m going to live there.
@Chuck: Maybe if you merged the southern states it’d fit there:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=GDP+of+china+vs+USA
On their map they could probably fit the “U” of “USA”
I love that MN is Thailand, with our huge Hmong population it makes sense ;-)
@Chuck Actually China’s GDP is only 4.99 trillion dollars… Which you can see is less than what Cali, Florida and Texas combined hold
hmm, somebody seems to truly love Thailand and Finland! ;D both represented 3 times. oh i wish i was in the first one of them and not the second. O_o
i’d like to see something like this with the amount of snow the countries get each winter.
Equivalents for China according to the Economist.
http://www.economist.com/content/all_parities_china
The problem with using GDP to compare to other countries is that as a metric, GDP includes public spending. So nations that have healthier (less debt-ridden) economies can still have lower GDPs because the U.S. spends so much money it doesn’t have.