GDP by American states and their country equivalent

[Mick1]

Gavin Newsom is bragging that “If California were a separate country, it would be the fourth largest economy in the world.” That’s true, right behind Germany.  SO I thought, “How would the rest of the American states fare? How large is their economy compared to the nearest country?”

In the list below, I compared the 2024 state GDP with the closest country 2024 GDPs. Here are the closest matches:

1. California / Japan, $4.1 trillion
2. Texas / between France and Italy, $2.7T
3. New York / between Canada and Italy, $2.3T
4. Florida / Spain, $1.7T
5. Illinois / Saudi Arabia, $1.1T
6. Pennsylvania and Ohio/ Switzerland, $1T
7. Georgia, Washington and New Jersey/ Poland, $882B
8. North Carolina, Massachusetts, Virginia / Taiwan, $775B
9. Michigan / Belgium, $706B
10. Colorado / Ireland, $553
11. Arizona and Tennessee/ UAE, $552B
12. Maryland / Austria, $542B
13. Indiana and Minnesota / Norway, $504B
14. Wisconsin and Missouri/ Bangladesh, $551B
15. Connecticut / Pakistan, $365B
16. South Carolina / Czech Republic, $349B
17. Oregon, Alabama & Louisiana / Chile, $331B
18. Utah / Portugal, $301B
19. Kentucky / Kazakhstan, $293B
20. Oklahoma / Greece, $266B
21. Nevada and Iowa / Iraq, $260B
22. Kansas / Hungary, $235B
23. Arkansas, District of Columbia & Nebraska/ Nigeria, $188B
24. Mississippi / Kuwait, $157B
25. New Mexico / Slovakia, $141B
26. Idaho / Dominican Republic, $128B
27. New Hampshire / Guatemala, $121B
28. Hawaii / Angola, $115B
29. West Virginia / Venezuela, $108B
30. Delaware / Costa Rica, $103B
31. Maine /Croatia, $99B
32. Rhode Island / Sri Lanka, $82B
33. Montana / Azerbaijan, $76B
34. North and South Dakota / Slovenia, $75B
35. Alaska / Belarus, $70B
36. Wyoming / Macau, $53B
37. Vermont / Latvia, $45B

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[johnnyo53]

BUT THE SLIMY PR*CK NEVER TALKS ABOUT HOW DEEP IN DEBT WE ARE…

“I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I

[Beeg_Dawg]

California does not look quite as impressive when you take Chevron, Meta, Tesla and Google out of the picture.  Chevron is already out the door, the left is hell bent on destroying Tesla, Meta and Google could leave tomorrow if they choose to do so.

Since 2019: Over 200 companies have relocated their headquarters out of California, including major firms like Chevron and Hewlett-Packard.

In 2023, corporate tax revenue was approximately 50% below forecast, partly due to businesses reducing their presence in the state

Movie production is abandoning LA, finding states other than California much less expensive. Ben Affleck recently blasted Newsome about his lack of support for the movie industry.  Rob Lowe noted it was cheaper to fly a hundred people to Ireland than walk across the parking lot to film at Fox.

Ranked per capita, Cali comes in fourth, well behind New York, Massachusetts and Washington, but just ahead of Connecticut, North Dakota and Alaska.  California’s GDP as a percentage of US GP suddenly does not look as impressive when figuring in it’s percentage of the population.

 

• This reply was modified 1 week, 6 days ago by Beeg_Dawg.

[Mick1]

Here’s another fun fact. In March, economists expected the United States to gain 140,000 net new jobs. Instead, the USA gained 228,000 jobs.

Also note that unemployment inched up from 4.1% to 4.2%, largely due to people returning to looking for work. The labor workforce participation rate increased to 62.5%. (from 62.4%). By way of comparison, the labor force participation rate averaged 62.84 percent from 1948 until 2025, reaching an all-time high of 67.30 percent in January 2000 and a record low of 58.10 percent in December 1954.

U.S. added 228,000 jobs in March, beating forecasts, as economists warn of turbulence

Not so for California. California lost 11,600 jobs. But here’s the tragic part: California gained 15,200 government and taxpayer-funded jobs, while losing 26,800 private-sector jobs. Can’t wait to hear Gov. Newsom take credit for that.

California lost 11,600 net jobs in March, nearly half of new jobs from welfare

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