This is really cool.
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2007/01/countries_gdp_a.html (http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2007/01/countries_gdp_a.html)
Hawaii equal to Nigeria? No.
That's just the first error I noticed.
OK, but it's rather out of date, nearly 6 years old.
We've had a global slump since then, maybe someone to re-gig the figures ?
Idaho = the Ukraine ? :hmm:
Russia has the same GDP as New Jersey? :huh:
Quote from: Malthus on November 16, 2012, 04:52:28 PM
Russia has the same GDP as New Jersey? :huh:
The same fashion sense as well.
Heh. Russia GDP = 1.86 Trillion; New Jeresy GDP = $497 Billion.
Map lacks accuracy ...
Must be woefully out of date. I heard about it on The World. Didn't bother to check to see if it's accurate, but probably should have.
Quote from: merithyn on November 16, 2012, 04:58:31 PM
Must be woefully out of date.
New Jersey has never had the economy of Russia. Nor Hawaii Nigeria...etc.
It's not out of date, it's just wrong.
Ohio= Ausrtalia? Nah. Australia might have more rednecks though. It would be close.
Quote from: DGuller on November 16, 2012, 04:59:32 PM
Hey! :mad: Hey! :mad:
I didn't hear that, your chains were clinking too loudly.
I guess someone wishes the US had that kind of GDP, or maybe this is after the US nukes all those countries? :hmm:
It's not going to be too long before someone in China starts mapping national GDPs to Chinese provinces. :D
Quote from: mongers on November 16, 2012, 06:10:40 PM
It's not going to be too long before someone in China starts mapping national GDPs to Chinese provinces. :D
Course there'll still be the problem of those countries having a tenth the population of those provinces.
Quote from: mongers on November 16, 2012, 06:10:40 PM
It's not going to be too long before someone in China starts mapping national GDPs to Chinese provinces. :D
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ritholtz.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F03%2FCountry-GDP-as-China-province.png&hash=37e7be2604296c7652a25060b78c40d97f62f8b2)
Maybe it's measuring per-capita GDP?
Quote from: Tonitrus on November 16, 2012, 06:30:10 PM
Maybe it's measuring per-capita GDP?
No because I think the average Turk isn't as well off as someone living in Washington state. Other obvious ones New Hampshire= Bangladesh ?
Connecticut-Greece probably works now . . .
Ah, to have all the wealth of Ireland divided between five times the population.
The Economist did this last year:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/01/comparing_us_states_countries
Some seem weirdly accurate. Russia and Texas, or Italy and California for example :lol:
Edit: And by population Texas is Saudi Arabia :o
Woohoo! Lithuania!
Quote from: PDH on November 16, 2012, 09:08:52 PM
Woohoo! Lithuania!
Without that annoying Russian smell too