Countries you state has a larger economy than (best, cost, rates) - City vs. City - City-Data Forum

PDX_LAX · 10-19-2009, 10:31 PM

As according to the IMF in 2008: Comparison between U.S. states and countries nominal GDP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Any surprises? What countries is your state above/close to? How will this be different in the future?

Countries with smaller economies:

California (where I live):

Canada
India
Mexico
Russia
Saudi Arabia
(the continent of Africa has only a slightly larger GDP than California)

Oregon (where I'm from):

Egypt
New Zealand
Pakistan
Philippines
Vietnam

tablemtn · 10-19-2009, 11:43 PM

It's hard to say; some of the figures have changed in the past few months as the Euro has gained value against the dollar.

desert sun · 10-20-2009, 12:12 AM

New Mexico-(where Im from and where I live)

Nigeria, maybe

Thomas R. · 10-20-2009, 02:00 AM

Arkansas - Where I was born

It states

Slovakia
Morocco
Bangladesh
Vietnam
Qatar

I was skeptical of that, as Vietnam is large while Arkansas's fairly poor, but using Statemaster and the UNDP it works out so long as we mean in real dollars.

Going by even GDP (PPP) Arkansas has a bigger economy than Tunisia, a nation of ten million. West Virginia's GDP (PPP) is larger than Costa Rica's. It kind of makes it "hit me" more how poor some significant or known countries are compared to us.

Bydand · 10-20-2009, 06:16 AM

Might come as a shock to some but Michigan is ranked #12 for the States and is higher than a lot of Countries. We were #36 overall which isn't too bad considering everybody slams MI for how poor and jobless it is thought to be lately. I just picked these Countries:

Saudi Arabia
Austria
Greece
South Africa
Hong Kong (kind of surprised me they were this low on the list actually)
United Arab Emirates

atlantagreg30127 · 10-20-2009, 08:16 AM

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