GDP maps
This map of GDPs of various small countries as compared to the GDP of various US states is making the rounds of the blogosphere:
http://carls.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/01…
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Fascinating.
Folks complain that China is not listed. Indeed, it’s not.
Going here for a list of GDPs of nations, and here and here for GDP of US states and regions, I’ve created this alternate map, comparing the US (largest GDP in the world) to the next four largest GDP countries.
January 18th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Nice!
January 19th, 2007 at 12:07 am
[...] GDP Map: that is so cool! It is quite illustrative of what a powerhouse our economy is. {via} [...]
January 20th, 2007 at 7:54 am
Who’da thunk that half of the colors represented countries who LOST and were put back on their feet by the US in the last globally comprehensive military conflict (WW) ?
January 20th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Thank you for the work it took to create this map. Fascinating!
January 21st, 2007 at 1:17 am
Thanks for the appreciation!
January 21st, 2007 at 1:41 am
[...] An alternate version with colors for countries with bigger GDPs than one state was thought up here. [...]
January 23rd, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Let’s do what we can to keep it this way.
January 23rd, 2007 at 12:16 pm
These two maps are wonderful graphics, especially for those anti-America types in EUrope and elsewhere who need to have a picture drawn for them. As noted above, this must have taken a lot of research and work-thanks for that!
January 23rd, 2007 at 1:30 pm
what an economic dynamo this America is,this should help to put the nervous nellies and economic doom sayers to bed for a while.It is interesting to see the size of Japans graphic economic strength.
January 23rd, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Interesting how Japan and Germany are at the top. See the results of all out total and annihilating war against America? Your economy shoots to the top. Maybe we should nuke Iran…
January 23rd, 2007 at 3:10 pm
“Who’da thunk that half of the colors represented countries who LOST and were put back on their feet…”
And one of the others (arguably, both) was so exhausted by the effort that it required almost the same level of rebuilding assistance.
January 23rd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Old Jacques…a very good observation…
Most of the countries are ones who lost WW2 and where helped by the States.
So that’s the secret! Ok, Canada declares on the US, surrenders right away (same time as declaration) and waits for a Marshall Plan.
Most of Canada wouldn’t notice a difference in handouts, except Ontario and Alberta of course.
BC won’t accept it because of all potential air pollution caused by the planes coming in with supplies.
January 23rd, 2007 at 3:19 pm
GDP MAPPING…
I just thought these were fascinating and well worth looking at: check out the blogs in question for more analysis and detail….
January 24th, 2007 at 1:23 am
That’s actually the idea in this movie, but it backfires and they win.
I guess the lesson’s been unlearned since ’59, though. ;-)
June 12th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
But the second map only shows two EU countries. If it showed the full EU in, say, blue, the blue would cover the entire US. The eu’s gdp is greater than that of the usa.
June 12th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
If it showed the full EU in, say, blue, the blue would cover the entire US. The eu’s gdp is greater than that of the usa.
If I go to the handy dandy CIA World Factbook .. it seems not to be so.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/us.html
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$12.98 trillion (2006 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate):
$13.22 trillion (2006 est.)
GDP – real growth rate:
3.4% (2006 est.)
GDP – per capita (PPP):
$43,500 (2006 est.)
GDP – composition by sector:
agriculture: 0.9%
industry: 20.4%
services: 78.6% (2006 est.)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/ee.html
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$12.82 trillion (2006 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate):
$13.74 trillion (2006 est.)
GDP – real growth rate:
2.8% (2006 est.)
GDP – per capita (PPP):
$29,400 (2006 est.)
GDP – composition by sector:
agriculture: 2.1%
industry: 27.3%
services: 70.5% (2006 est.)
June 13th, 2007 at 5:42 am
Well, brian, that’s not accurate according to any other sources nor the non-adjusted figures (GDP (official exchange rate)). The .eu GDP is about 1 trillion larger than the .us GDP as a quick google search will show you.
The EU is the worlds biggest economic power, as the Euro is the worlds biggest currency.
Of course the US has a higher GDP per capita than .eu, but none of this really matters. What matters is your standard of living, which is probably higher in California than in eg Rumania, but probably lower in Mississipi than in eg Sweden. What’s 1 trillion in GDP amongst unions?
I think it might be more informative, or useful, to see a map that showed US states by some standard of living index, where the states were indicated by country equivalent. Hard to do maybe.
June 13th, 2007 at 7:45 am
No, the US, plus Paraguay, New Zealand, and Japan is the world’s biggest conomic power.
No, the EU, plus China plus Singapore is the world’s biggest economic power.
No, the Western Hemisphere is the world’s biggest economic power.
No,…
But, seriously, the obviously silly thing in my examples above is that I am lumping together different nation states just for the purpose of inflating a total GFP.
I suggest that talking about the EU does the same thing.
What does it mean to call the EU “an economic power” ?
The EU shares a currency. So do the US and several other countries, via a dollar peg.
OK, the EU has easy trade across national borders.
So does the US, Mexico, Canada, and a dozen or so other countries because of our various trade agreements.
Well, you respond, the NAFTA plus friends isn’t the same as the EU, because those are different nation states, with different militaries, and different seats in the UN.
Yes, I agree, and so is the EU – if the different nations in the EU each have their own militaries, and the UN gives the member states of the EU separate seats, who are we to call them one country?
I’m not so sure about that.
I’ve seen it as a list, and it was shocking to see how poorly the EU countries ranked. I think I blogged about it here, but I can’t find it, via google, or otherwise. :-(
June 13th, 2007 at 9:46 am
Well, brian, that’s not accurate according to any other sources nor the non-adjusted figures (GDP (official exchange rate)). The .eu GDP is about 1 trillion larger than the .us GDP as a quick google search will show you.
I did google and found the number you suggested. I didn’t trust it – no cites. The CIA World Fact Book is a trustworthy source.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
[...] I was also wondering whereas the big players like China, Japan or EU? Don’t need to worry, another blogger kindly created this map where China took most of west coast while Japan relabeled the entire [...]
June 14th, 2007 at 12:08 am
[...] created to compare the US (largest GDP in the world) to the next four largest GDP countries. See original map post here.There is also another map with smaller countires. posted by admin at 10:08 pm [...]
June 19th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
I did google and found the number you suggested. I didn’t trust it – no cites. The CIA World Fact Book is a trustworthy source.
IMF sez:
EU 2006 GDP = USD 14.53 T (population 299.7 M)
US 2006 GDP = USD 13.24 T (population 494.8 M)
NAFTA 2006 GDP = USD 15.35 T (population 436.4 M)
In other venues, it might be reasonable to ask whether these nominal dollar figures, or the adjusted PPP figures which skew the results by about 10% toward North America, are appropriate. However, I can’t imagine that Travis, given a choice between believing the market or believing an IMF bureaucrat, will admit any doubt about how to value a euro.
June 19th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Sorry, flipped the US and EU populations. US is 299.7M, EU is 494.8M. GDPs are correct.
July 6th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
[...] (as they’re all too big to ‘fit’ into just one state’s economy). This alternate map (found here) does just that, comparing the economies of the next four largest GDP countries to multiple states. [...]
July 8th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
We should be clear that success in Germany and Japan after WWII had the most to do with (forced) adoption of a free-market Democracy (emphasis on the free-market).
July 9th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Mick Says:
I agree. On the other hand, the reason that those two countries were fearsome adversaries is in part because they had decent economies / the ability to mobilize them for war production BEFORE the war.
July 30th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP)
August 1st, 2007 at 2:29 am
I checked the CIA World Fact Book GDP figures for France, Canada, Russia and Mexico and compared them to Dept of Commerce Bureau of Econ. Analysis GDP for states CA, TX, NJ and IL.
Even allowing for differences between PPP and nominal, the figures I found and those inferred on the map just really don’t add up to valid comparisons It would be interesting if the map were done properly.
August 1st, 2007 at 7:32 am
[quote comment="70728"]I checked the CIA World Fact Book GDP figures[/quote]
I noted that I used Wikipedia figures, and those come from the IMF.
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compared them to Dept of Commerce Bureau of Econ. Analysis GDP for states
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I noted that I used Commerce Department / Bureau of Econ. Analysis figures.
[quote]the figures I found and those inferred on the map just really don’t add up to valid comparisons It would be interesting if the map were done properly.[/quote]
Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems that either your complain boils down to (a) you chose different figures, and therefore you don’t like the map, or (b) the basic arithmetic of adding up the GDP of states to achieve comparable GDPs of nations was done incorrectly, or (c) for some other reason you don’t believe that the comparison is valid.
If (a): whatever. Go ahead and and make a map using figures you like.
If (b): I’m pretty sure the math is right.
If (c): I don’t understand what your point is.
[quote] It would be interesting if the map were done properly.[/quote]
Feel free to stop back after you’ve picked up some manners.
August 1st, 2007 at 8:41 am
Interesting moves …
In GDP (PPP) India is now ranking THIRD behind USA, China and ahead of Japan.
In GDP (nominal) China is now ranking THIRD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
August 1st, 2007 at 9:01 am
In last 2000 years USA ranking number one 3% of time vs. India 95% of time.
Surely the world is not same anymore but still US has long way to go to prove his GDP dominance. Even 80 years ago US wasn’t at the top position.
God bless America and the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP
August 7th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
List by the CIA World Factbook. Rank Country GDP (PPP) $m
— World 65,950,000
1 US – 13,130,000
— EU – 13,060,000
2 China – 10,170,000 (Growing fast)
3 India – 4,218,000 (Growing fast)
4 Japan – 4,156,000
5 Germany – 2,630,000
6 UK – 1,930,000
7 France – 1,891,000
8 Italy – 1,756,000
9 Russia – 1,746,000 (Growing fast)
10 Brazil – 1,655,000 (Growing fast)
August 7th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
That’s the first time I’ve seen someone
(a) create a wikipedia article to bolster their case
(b) have the wikipedia article deleted out from under them in under 15 minutes.
August 10th, 2007 at 12:13 am
[...] y’all seen the GDP map? First time I had, but I’ve been [...]
August 10th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Well tjic you know the GDP PP numbers so you know they are right :).
Here is a link from cia.gov, in case
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2001rank.html
or
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DATASTATISTICS/Resources/GDP_PPP.pdf
The wikipedia article is also there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
I don’t have any control on wikipedia site so i don’t know come the link got changed
…..
List by the CIA World Factbook. Rank Country GDP (PPP) $m
— World 65,950,000
1 US – 13,130,000
— EU – 13,060,000
2 China – 10,170,000 (Growing fast)
3 India – 4,218,000 (Growing fast)
4 Japan – 4,156,000
5 Germany – 2,630,000
6 UK – 1,930,000
7 France – 1,891,000
8 Italy – 1,756,000
9 Russia – 1,746,000 (Growing fast)
10 Brazil – 1,655,000 (Growing fast)
October 31st, 2007 at 7:23 am
If even the CIA World Factbook is admitting that the EU economy is larger than the USA economy, than it must be true.
I noticed that for most of this year, the CIA World Factbook was still saying that the USA economy was larger.
They’ve finally changed their minds now.
January 8th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Juan spoke softly.
and made note of the fact that ‘the universe of Transnational corporations (TNCs) spaned some 77,000 parent companies with over 770,000 foreign affiliates. In 2005, these foreign affiliates generated an estimated $4.5 trillion in value added, employed some 62 million workers and exported goods and services valued at more than $4 trillion.’
National states and their jurisdictions obviously have not disappeared but are fast becoming an incorrect unit of analysis.
Where, by the way, are the nice neat national economic borders? In the imagination and in by definition data, no matter that which is so defined increasingly contradicts the evident.
February 6th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
[...] is a snapshot taken by the blogosphere:http://tjic.com/?p=5076The sourcing is disputed for the ‘United States of the World’ map, but the idea is [...]
April 26th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
[...] case you’re wondering where the really big countries are, here’s another map, in which Japan gobbles up our entire midsection and New England, while China has to settle for the [...]
June 20th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
[...] [...]
August 26th, 2008 at 11:37 am
at current growth rates, China’s economy will overtake USA’s by 2022.
think about it, 1 billion people, large area of (good quality) land. it’s inevitable. in 1947 poverty was at 53%, now its well under 8%.
Moreover, Russia’s economy has been growing at 12% a year for the past 5 years.
And the EU is integrating it’s armies and governments more and more, each passing year.
4 world superpowers, one world…..get ready.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
[quote comment="161469"]
And the EU is integrating it’s armies and governments more and more, each passing year.
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So that makes … what? One battallion? With air support, as long as it’s sunny and clear?
September 17th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
hmm, tjic, the UK policed a section of Iraq almost as big as the US’s. And that’s just one piece of a biggggg puzzle.
And considering the fact that the US is having to get all of its reserve forces shot it’s kinda hard to talk.
December 25th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
[...] here is an interesting version that allows comparing the U.S. with countries not listed on the first map because their GDPs are [...]
January 28th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
This post is really great. I like the comparing the usa with World´s states economies. It makes a clear sight to usa gdp levels. Really great stuff:)