Thursday, June 21, 2007

A New Way Of Looking at The US Economy in the World


The map exchanges states for the country with the GDP that most closely matches it. For more explanation see here. This comes from a great blog called Strange Maps. Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan.

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3 comments:

Unknown said...

great map, but I am not sure really how accurate it is. New Jersey and Russia have the same economic output? I think that just shows the imbalance of exchange rates and cost of living adjustments.

Thu Jun 21, 05:52:00 PM CDT
dcat said...

Donald --
Thanks for commenting.
I think your skepticism may be warranted, though at the same time I think this reveals just how affluent the United States is. And New Jersey's proximity to New York and Philly certainly will have a positive effect. I'm not entirely surprised, I guess. Plus, of course, GDP is a function of productivity, and Russia's productivity is probably fairly stunted.
But your skepticism should force me to admoit that I posted but have not checked to confirm the validity of the statistics.

Cheers --
dcat

Thu Jun 21, 05:57:00 PM CDT
Ken said...

Derek--

Just a belated note-- these are obviously not BEA statistics and they have some odd differences to BEA data (Tennessee/Kentucky for example). In general, they seem inflated. Finally, to make a point that has been made to me a lot, that the "dollar" cost of a day's food in rural Mexico is less than a day's food in Manhattan, does not necessarily imply a productivity/wealth difference between the two which it would be accurate to compare in this manner...

Cheers,

Thu Nov 22, 12:33:00 PM CST

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