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- reflex768, on 05/15/2008, -6/+310The "ecomomy." The illiterate mother of economics.
- FreshPineSent, on 05/15/2008, -3/+223At the risk of sounding even stupider, no I can't.
- amanilaenvelope, on 05/15/2008, -6/+201At the risk of sounding really stupid
Can somebody explain it to me? - ladn3k, on 05/15/2008, -6/+112i guess i'm chinese now.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -2/+97Hitler had the same question
- forceuser, on 05/15/2008, -5/+98It appears that I'm TURNING JAPANESE I'M TURNING JAPANESE
- Ryan166, on 05/15/2008, -6/+90And even more simplified: AMERICA!!! ***** YEAH!!!
- Stevo23, on 05/15/2008, -1/+84The GDP of the next 4 largest economies are equal to the GSPs (gross state product) of the shaded regions of the USA. At least, that's how I interpreted it.
- Grantismo, on 05/15/2008, -9/+69USA! USA! USA!
Now compare debt... oh wait T_T - upquark, on 05/15/2008, -3/+57This is the GDP (gross domestic product) of several countries shown against regions of the United States. The regions have been divided according to their gross output. The point is that America's "economy" (a misleading term in this case) is as large as Germany, the UK, China and Japan combined.
The diagram is a bit misleading, as the GDP does not take into account the capital investment in the respective countries: in reality, much of the "wealth" in the countries listed (especially between the United States and China) is actually the same wealth, shared between the nations due to investment and private interest. - reflex768, on 05/15/2008, -6/+55No doubt. Well, actually there is a little doubt, as I remember hearing that sort of thing about Japan and Germany in the 1980s too. The US does have a strange capacity for turning on the afterburners right when you think she's finally had her day....and before you know it, the US economy's surged ahead of everyone who was catching up, leaving them wondering what happened.
- FreshPineSent, on 05/15/2008, -10/+54Uh, what about Alaska and Hawaii?
- atorch, on 05/15/2008, -1/+45It's five in the morning, so this may be totally off, but aren't those numbers wrong? US GDP is roughly 14 trillion per year, and Japan China Germany UK should all be in the low trillions...
- mcrumley, on 05/15/2008, -1/+41It's not the area that matters, it's the combined economy of the states.
- mbauer14, on 05/15/2008, -8/+52this makes no sense. why is germany's area bigger than the uk's?
- Antialias, on 05/15/2008, -5/+46Our capacity for greed is unmatched.
- Checkerd, on 05/15/2008, -0/+36I really think so!
- adrenaline33, on 05/15/2008, -4/+39Well I'm not sure exactly the message the poster was going for. What I got out of it is that our economy might be growing relatively slowly, but it is still ***** huge!
- jsmith39, on 05/15/2008, -2/+38Don't feel bad, I just found out I'm Japanese.
- kaykfrink, on 05/15/2008, -2/+37Wish I know that when I applied to college.
- tschau, on 05/15/2008, -5/+30Those are the fractions of the US economy that each one of those countries make up. Put together, the four have a GDP the size of the United States'.
- Eslamicolt3, on 05/15/2008, -5/+34It never fails to amaze me how little islands like Japan and Britain, and a country with next to no natural resources like Germany, are able to pull so far ahead of everyone else. Goes to show the power of innovation and intelligence.
- LittleDas, on 05/15/2008, -4/+281 United States 13,843,825
2 Japan 4,383,762
3 Germany 3,322,147
4 China 3,250,827
5 United Kingdom 2,772,570
all numbers in millions USD
Those are the 2007 GDP as estimated by the International Money Fund. This chart is either very poorly labeled or just a bunch of *****. - Donwangugi, on 05/15/2008, -1/+20You mean trillion? Just more proof that people who like to generalize digg users can easily misplace 3 zeros.
- floridiot2, on 05/15/2008, -1/+19Might as well be.. everything else is from China basically.
- MonkeyFarts, on 05/15/2008, -0/+17Hawaii: $58.3 billion
Alaska: $41.1 billion
Total: $99.4 billion
Hardly non-existant. In fact, combined, they make up around 7% of the US's total GDP for 2007 ($13.843 trillion). =)
Fun fact: The US's $13.8 trillion GDP for 2007 made up 25% of worldwide GDP combined ($54 trillion). Now if that doesn't put things into perspective, nothing will.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_between_U. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ ... - tschau, on 05/15/2008, -3/+19The U.S. economy in recession by no means implies that it is small. It's still ***** huge. It's just not getting bigger at the moment.
- KanoBlade, on 05/15/2008, -0/+14You're correct, here's a comment from the author: "I should add that the parentheses below each country name is how much additional money you'd have to add to each country's GDP to make it genuinely fit the US region assigned. The amount of money that's left over after plugging these countries in is roughly equal to the GDP of Russia, the 11th richest country in the world. That in itself is pretty amazing."
It's on the comment page, http://flickr.com/photos/22994175@N03/2205172655/ - tschau, on 05/15/2008, -3/+18No you wouldn't.
Even if that does happen, which it might, it's going to take years. Over the course of a few minutes or hours there isn't going to be a noticable difference with a 1024x675 pixel image. - Tebixan, on 05/15/2008, -3/+17The US also dumped billions of dollars into Europe after WW2, and into Japan during the Korean War. The economies of the UK, France, Germany, and Japan were struggling after WW2, until the US stepped in to help.
This isn't some kind of nationalistic "AMERICA... ***** YEAH" comment. We did it primarily because we wanted strong American allies around the Soviet Union, leading up to the Cold War. WW2 devastated Europe & Japan, but the US and Russia came out stronger than when the war began. - Calinthalus, on 05/15/2008, -1/+16And yet, the EU isn't a country.
- bc289, on 05/15/2008, -2/+16Yeah, in terms of total GDP China will probably pass us. In terms of living standards and GDP per capita? They're far behind still, and won't be passing us any time soon. Total GDP doesn't say THAT much, since China's a lot bigger than us in terms of population.
- sh4rkb1t3, on 05/15/2008, -8/+27Well atleast the germans are producing ALMOST as much good quality stuff as the chinese are shipping out garbage. Not for long though, the never ending train of low-quality chinese trash will soon overwhelm us.
- willaggs, on 05/15/2008, -0/+12That article you cited proved that the diagram is right...
"US GDP is projected to be $13,22 trillion (or $13.220 billion) in 2007, according to this source. That’s almost as much as the economies of the next four (Japan, Germany, China, UK) combined." - PHiZ187, on 05/15/2008, -2/+14Yes, I believe they vast untapped reserves of farfegnugen
- apollomurga, on 05/15/2008, -1/+14i would continue on with the whole bit, but those are the only lyrics I, or probably anyone else knows...
- DubBucket, on 05/15/2008, -0/+11wow.. way to own yourself.
- Jennefah, on 05/15/2008, -0/+11Oh? From a list of GDP from 2007 produced by the International Monetary Fund (all figures are in 'millions of dollars') -
United States - 13,843,825
Canada - 1,432,140
Mexico - 893,365
= 16,169,330
European Union - 16,830,100
Obliterate, you say? - inactive, on 05/15/2008, -1/+12Consumer spending accounts for 2/3rds of the economy, so that's a positive.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -1/+14Maybe you could do some addition.
- muckemuck, on 05/15/2008, -2/+14errr.. we _spent_ too much cash.. we haven't been making cash for years. You don't get a trade deficit year after year by making cash.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -1/+12Do I get video games faster then?
- Tweak1313, on 05/15/2008, -4/+17Would this be an 'American Pie" graph?
- billbillbilly, on 05/15/2008, -1/+14http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ ...
- Ravenhaft, on 05/15/2008, -2/+12Basically it's showing that the US economy is as big as all 4 of the 4 economies behind ours.
- brettmurf, on 05/15/2008, -4/+18I actually don't understand how this works. It says GDP from 2006, but the numbers seem a bit off to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ ...
I originally thought this would be the top 4 countries we borrowed from in 2006, which would have made for an awesome map of the same concept.
Maybe I am just missing it, but it seems wrong? - soupdawg30, on 05/15/2008, -4/+16If we count Alaska's oil possibilities maybe we could put a few more countries in there.
- PHiZ187, on 05/15/2008, -0/+9Haha, I didn't even see that.
- AgmLauncher, on 05/15/2008, -0/+9Those numbers aren't totals, but rather, the difference between that nation's GDP and that region's total GSP.
So the south east region is the same as the UK + $216 billion dollars. In otherwords, that region's total GSP is 216 billion dollars larger than the UK's GSP. -
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