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May 23, 2005

Georgia Is Bigger Than Georgia?

If the American states were independent countries, California (8), New York (16), Texas (17), and Florida (19), would all rank in the Top 20 according to Gross Domestic Product.

Georgia, the American state, is 21 times larger than Georgia, the country that was formerly part of the Soviet Union ($320B vs. $15B).

South Dakota's GDP is larger than Cuba's ($26.5B vs. $25.9B) even though Cuba has 14 times as many people (770,000 vs. 11.3M).

Nebraska's GDP is 60% larger than Libya's ($65.7B vs. $41B) even though Libya has more than 3 times as many people (1.7M vs. 5.7M)

Indiana and Sweden have roughly the same GDP, but Sweden has almost 50% more people (6.2M vs. 9M).

These kinds of numbers always blow my mind. I'm constantly in awe, but never surprised, at what this country can do. It's exactly what the free market is all about, baby...

Click on the following link for a full list of GDP figures for both countries and American states.

1	United States	$10,400,000,000,000
2	China	5,700,000,000,000
3	Japan	3,550,000,000,000
4	India	2,660,000,000,000
5	Germany	2,184,000,000,000
6	France	1,540,000,000,000
7	United Kingdom	1,520,000,000,000
8	California	1,446,430,000,000
9	Italy	1,438,000,000,000
10	Russia	1,350,000,000,000
11	Brazil	1,340,000,000,000
12	Korea, South	931,000,000,000
13	Canada	923,000,000,000
14	Mexico	900,000,000,000
15	Spain	828,000,000,000
16	New York	821,667,000,000
17	Texas	813,112,000,000
18	Indonesia	663,000,000,000
19	Florida	550,005,000,000
20	Australia	528,000,000,000
21	Illinois	499,466,000,000
22	Turkey	468,000,000,000
23	Iran	456,000,000,000
24	Pennsylvania	449,947,000,000
25	Netherlands	434,000,000,000
26	South Africa	432,000,000,000
27	Thailand	429,000,000,000
28	Taiwan	406,000,000,000
29	Ohio	403,015,000,000
30	New Jersey	397,469,000,000
31	Argentina	391,000,000,000
32	Poland	368,100,000,000
33	Michigan	365,277,000,000
34	Philippines	356,000,000,000
35	Georgia	320,007,000,000
36	North Carolina	314,377,000,000
37	Pakistan	311,000,000,000
38	Virginia	304,432,000,000
39	Belgium	297,600,000,000
40	Massachusetts	297,343,000,000
41	Colombia	268,000,000,000
42	Egypt	268,000,000,000
43	Washington	244,915,000,000
44	Saudi Arabia	242,000,000,000
45	Bangladesh	239,000,000,000
46	Switzerland	231,000,000,000
47	Sweden	227,400,000,000
48	Austria	226,000,000,000
49	Ukraine	218,000,000,000
50	Indiana	214,080,000,000
51	Maryland	212,444,000,000
52	Minnesota	210,781,000,000
53	Malaysia	210,000,000,000
54	Greece	201,100,000,000
55	Wisconsin	200,014,000,000
56	Tennessee	199,786,000,000
57	Missouri	194,611,000,000
58	Colorado	187,120,000,000
59	Hong Kong	186,000,000,000
60	Vietnam	183,000,000,000
61	Arizona	182,208,000,000
62	Portugal	182,000,000,000
63	Connecticut	172,378,000,000
64	Algeria	167,000,000,000
65	Romania	166,000,000,000
66	Czech Republic	155,900,000,000
67	Denmark	155,500,000,000
68	Chile	151,000,000,000
69	Norway	143,000,000,000
70	Louisiana	140,166,000,000
71	Finland	136,200,000,000
72	Hungary	134,700,000,000
73	Venezuela	132,800,000,000
74	Alabama	132,145,000,000
75	Peru	132,000,000,000
76	Kentucky	128,982,000,000
77	South Carolina	127,251,000,000
78	Israel	122,000,000,000
79	Oregon	120,289,000,000
80	Ireland	118,500,000,000
81	Morocco	115,000,000,000
82	Nigeria	113,500,000,000
83	Kazakhstan	105,000,000,000
84	Singapore	105,000,000,000
85	Iowa	103,053,000,000
86	Oklahoma	100,383,000,000
87	Kansas	93,352,000,000
88	Nevada	87,727,000,000
89	Belarus	85,000,000,000
90	New Zealand	78,800,000,000
91	Utah	75,781,000,000
92	Arkansas	75,528,000,000
93	Sri Lanka	73,700,000,000
94	Mississippi	72,293,000,000
95	Burma	70,000,000,000
96	Slovakia	66,000,000,000
97	Nebraska	65,793,000,000
98	Uzbekistan	65,000,000,000
99	Tunisia	63,000,000,000
100	Syria	59,400,000,000
101	Iraq	58,000,000,000
102	New Mexico	56,523,000,000
103	Dominican Republic	53,000,000,000
104	United Arab Emirate	53,000,000,000
105	Sudan	52,900,000,000
106	Bulgaria	50,600,000,000
107	Ethiopia	50,600,000,000
108	Delaware	49,146,000,000
109	New Hampshire	49,047,000,000
110	Guatemala	48,000,000,000
111	West Virginia	47,256,000,000
112	Hawaii	47,066,000,000
113	Puerto Rico	45,700,000,000
114	Ghana	42,500,000,000
115	Ecuador	41,700,000,000
116	Libya	41,000,000,000
117	Maine	40,960,000,000
118	Idaho	40,403,000,000
119	Rhode Island	39,569,000,000
120	Croatia	38,900,000,000
121	Nepal	36,000,000,000
122	Slovenia	36,000,000,000
123	Kuwait	34,200,000,000
124	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	34,000,000,000
125	Costa Rica	32,300,000,000
126	Kenya	32,000,000,000
127	Alaska	31,410,000,000
128	Uganda	31,000,000,000
129	El Salvador	30,000,000,000
130	Lithuania	29,200,000,000
131	Azerbaijan	27,000,000,000
132	Cameroon	27,000,000,000
133	Zimbabwe	27,000,000,000
134	South Dakota	26,578,000,000
135	Uruguay	26,500,000,000
136	Turkmenistan	26,000,000,000
137	Cuba	25,900,000,000
138	Montana	25,510,000,000
139	Serbia and Montenegro	25,300,000,000
140	Paraguay	25,000,000,000
141	Cote d'Ivoire	24,500,000,000
142	Jordan	22,800,000,000
143	Tanzania	22,500,000,000
144	Oman	22,400,000,000
145	Wyoming	22,265,000,000
146	Korea, North	22,000,000,000
147	North Dakota	21,365,000,000
148	Bolivia	21,000,000,000
149	Vermont	20,670,000,000
150	Latvia	20,000,000,000
151	Luxembourg	20,000,000,000
152	Cambodia	19,700,000,000
153	Lebanon	19,300,000,000
154	Mozambique	19,200,000,000
155	Afghanistan	19,000,000,000
156	Honduras	17,600,000,000
157	Panama	17,300,000,000
158	Qatar	17,200,000,000
159	Angola	16,900,000,000
160	Senegal	16,200,000,000
161	Guinea	15,900,000,000
162	Yemen	15,700,000,000
163	Estonia	15,200,000,000
164	Botswana	15,100,000,000
165	Georgia	15,000,000,000
166	Albania	14,000,000,000
167	Burkina Faso	13,600,000,000
168	Kyrgyzstan	13,500,000,000
169	Mauritius	13,200,000,000
170	Nicaragua	12,800,000,000
171	Armenia	12,600,000,000
172	Namibia	12,600,000,000
173	Madagascar	12,600,000,000
174	Haiti	12,000,000,000
175	Trinidad and Tobago	11,100,000,000
176	Moldova	11,000,000,000
177	Chad	10,000,000,000
178	Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of	10,000,000,000
179	Jamaica	10,000,000,000
180	Laos	9,900,000,000
181	Bahrain	9,800,000,000
182	Mali	9,800,000,000
183	Cyprus	9,400,000,000
184	Rwanda	9,000,000,000
185	Zambia	8,900,000,000
186	Niger	8,800,000,000
187	Macau	8,600,000,000
188	Tajikistan	8,000,000,000
189	Togo	8,000,000,000
190	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7,300,000,000
191	Benin	7,300,000,000
192	Malawi	7,200,000,000
193	Gabon	7,000,000,000
194	Iceland	7,000,000,000
195	Malta	7,000,000,000
196	Brunei	6,500,000,000
197	Lesotho	5,600,000,000
198	Mauritania	5,300,000,000
199	Bahamas, The	5,200,000,000
200	Mongolia	5,000,000,000
201	Swaziland	4,800,000,000
202	Central African Republic	4,700,000,000
203	Fiji	4,700,000,000
204	Martinique	4,500,000,000
205	Somalia	4,100,000,000
206	Barbados	4,000,000,000
207	Burundi	3,800,000,000
208	Guadeloupe	3,700,000,000
209	Reunion	3,600,000,000
210	Liberia	3,500,000,000
211	Eritrea	3,300,000,000
212	Guam	3,200,000,000
213	New Caledonia	3,000,000,000
214	Sierra Leone	2,800,000,000
215	Bhutan	2,700,000,000
216	Guyana	2,700,000,000
217	Gambia, The	2,600,000,000
218	Congo, Republic of the	2,500,000,000
219	Netherlands Antilles	2,400,000,000
220	Virgin Islands	2,400,000,000
221	Bermuda	2,250,000,000
222	Jersey	2,200,000,000
223	Aruba	1,940,000,000
224	West Bank	1,700,000,000
225	Man, Isle of	1,600,000,000
226	Suriname	1,500,000,000
227	Andorra	1,300,000,000
228	French Polynesia	1,300,000,000
229	Guernsey	1,300,000,000
230	Belize	1,280,000,000
231	Cayman Islands	1,270,000,000
232	Equatorial Guinea	1,270,000,000
233	Maldives	1,250,000,000
234	Papua New Guinea	1,200,000,000
235	French Guiana	1,100,000,000
236	Greenland	1,100,000,000
237	Guinea-Bissau	1,100,000,000
238	Faroe Islands	1,000,000,000
239	Samoa	1,000,000,000
240	San Marino	940,000,000
241	Northern Mariana Islands	900,000,000
242	Monaco	870,000,000
243	Saint Lucia	866,000,000
244	Liechtenstein	825,000,000
245	Solomon Islands	800,000,000
246	Cyprus	787,000,000
247	Antigua and Barbuda	750,000,000
248	Gaza Strip	735,000,000
249	Seychelles	626,000,000
250	Djibouti	619,000,000
251	Cape Verde	600,000,000
252	Vanuatu	563,000,000
253	American Samoa	500,000,000
254	Gibraltar	500,000,000
255	Comoros	441,000,000
256	Grenada	440,000,000
257	East Timor	440,000,000
258	Dominica	380,000,000
259	Saint Kitts and Nevis	339,000,000
260	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	339,000,000
261	British Virgin Islands	320,000,000
262	Micronesia, Federated States of	277,000,000
263	Tonga	236,000,000
264	Turks and Caicos Islands	231,000,000
265	Sao Tome and Principe	200,000,000
266	Palau	174,000,000
267	Marshall Islands	115,000,000
268	Cook Islands	105,000,000
269	Anguilla	104,000,000
270	Mayotte	85,000,000
271	Kiribati	79,000,000
272	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	75,000,000
273	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	74,000,000
274	Nauru	60,000,000
275	Wallis and Futuna	30,000,000
276	Montserrat	29,000,000
277	Saint Helena	18,000,000
278	Tuvalu	12,200,000
279	Niue	7,600,000
280	Tokelau	1,500,000

(GDP figures are from 2003. Data from the CIA World Fact Book, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the US Census Bureau)

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