GDP Comparison: Nations vs US State Economies

[Daco Celtic]

This is a comparison between U.S. states and sovereign states' Nominal Gross Domestic Product based on International Monetary Fund and Bureau of Economic Analysis data. Many of the states of the United States have large gross domestic product (called gross state product) which would rank highly on a list of countries world GDP.

Sources: https://www.bea.gov/news/2020/gross-...d-quarter-2019
https://www.imf.org/external/index.htm

National GDPs and States GDPs, 2019

US States in top 50 are in bold
(USD million)
# Country GDP
World[1] 86,779,373
— United States 21,439,453
1 China[n 1] 14,140,163
2 Japan 5,154,475
3 Germany 3,863,344
4 California 3,155,224
5 India 2,935,570
6 United Kingdom 2,743,586
7 France 2,707,074
8 Italy 1,988,636
9 Texas 1,896,063
10 Brazil 1,847,020
11 New York 1,740,745
12 Canada 1,730,914
13 Russia[n 2] 1,637,892
14 South Korea 1,629,532
15 Spain 1,397,870
16 Australia 1,376,255
17 Mexico 1,274,175
18 Indonesia 1,111,713
19 Florida 1,100,721
20 Netherlands 902,355
21 Illinois 901,572
22 Pennsylvania 817,216
23 Saudi Arabia 779,289
24 Turkey 743,708
25 Switzerland 715,360
26 Ohio 701,438
27 New Jersey 648,984
28 Georgia 619,818
29 Washington 603,772
30 Massachusetts 599,092
31 North Carolina 590,711
— Taiwan 586,104
32 Poland 565,854
33 Virginia 557,144
34 Michigan 543,977
35 Thailand 529,177
36 Sweden 528,929
37 Belgium 517,609
38 Iran 458,500
39 Austria 447,718
40 Nigeria 446,543
41 Argentina 445,469
42 Maryland 430,388
43 Norway 417,627
44 United Arab Emirates 405,771
45 Colorado 392,348
46 Israel 387,717
47 Ireland 384,940
48 Minnesota 383,094
49 Tennessee 382,275
50 Indiana 379,133
— Hong Kong 372,989
51 Arizona 368,556
52 Malaysia 365,303
53 Singapore 362,818
54 South Africa 358,839
55 Philippines 356,814
56 Wisconsin 348,822
57 Denmark 347,176
58 Missouri 334,286
59 Colombia 327,895
60 Bangladesh 317,465
61 Egypt 302,256
62 Chile 294,237
63 Connecticut 287,560
64 Pakistan 284,214
65 Finland 269,654
66 Louisiana 264,853
67 Vietnam 261,637
68 Oregon 253,036
69 South Carolina 247,711
70 Czechia 246,953
71 Romania 243,698
72 Portugal 236,408
73 Alabama 232,145
74 Peru 228,989
75 Iraq 224,462
76 Kentucky 215,586
77 Greece 214,012
78 Oklahoma 206,254
79 New Zealand 204,671
80 Iowa 195,858
81 Qatar 191,849
82 Utah 189,809
83 Nevada 178,622
84 Kansas 174,183
85 Algeria 172,781
86 Hungary 170,407
87 Kazakhstan 170,326
88 Ukraine 150,401
89 District of Columbia 146,996
90 Kuwait 137,591
91 Arkansas 134,022
92 Nebraska 127,941
93 Mississippi 119,497
94 Morocco 119,040
95 Ecuador 107,914
96 Slovakia 106,552
97 New Mexico 104,349
98 Puerto Rico 99,913
99 Kenya 98,607
100 Hawaii 97,664
101 Angola 91,527
102 Ethiopia 91,166
103 Dominican Republic 89,475
104 New Hampshire 89,152
105 Sri Lanka 86,566
106 Idaho 81,493
107 Guatemala 81,318
108 West Virginia 78,270
109 Syria[n 3] 77,460
110 Oman 76,609
111 Delaware 75,765
112 Venezuela 70,140
113 Luxembourg 69,453
114 Panama 68,536
115 Maine 67,905
116 Ghana 67,077
117 Bulgaria 66,250
118 Myanmar 65,994
119 Rhode Island 63,903
120 Belarus 62,572
121 Tanzania 62,224
122 Costa Rica 61,021
123 Croatia 60,702
124 Uzbekistan 60,490
125 Uruguay 59,918
126 Lebanon 58,565
127 North Dakota 57,106
128 Alaska 55,430
— Macau 55,136
129 Slovenia 54,154
130 South Dakota 53,692
131 Lithuania 53,641
132 Montana 52,470
133 Serbia 51,523
134 Democratic Republic of the Congo 48,994
135 Azerbaijan 47,171
136 Turkmenistan 46,674
137 Côte d'Ivoire 44,439
138 Jordan 44,172
139 Bolivia 42,401
140 Paraguay 40,714
141 Wyoming 39,610
142 Tunisia 38,732
143 Cameroon 38,632
144 Bahrain 38,184
145 Latvia 35,045
146 Vermont 34,973
147 Libya 33,018
148 Estonia 31,038
149 Sudan 30,873
150 Uganda 30,666
151 Yemen 29,855
152 Nepal 29,813
153 El Salvador 26,871
154 Cambodia 26,730
155 Honduras 24,449
156 Cyprus 24,280
157 Zambia 23,946
158 Senegal 23,940
159 Iceland 23,918
160 Papua New Guinea 23,587
161 Trinidad and Tobago 22,607
162 Bosnia and Herzegovina 20,106
163 Laos 19,127
164 Afghanistan 18,734
165 Botswana 18,690
166 Mali 17,647
167 Gabon 16,877
168 Georgia 15,925
169 Jamaica 15,702
170 Albania 15,418
171 Mozambique 15,093
172 Malta 14,859
173 Burkina Faso 14,593
174 Mauritius 14,391
175 Benin 14,374
176 Namibia 14,368
177 Mongolia 13,637
178 Armenia 13,444
179 Guinea 13,368
180 Zimbabwe 12,818
181 North Macedonia 12,672
182 The Bahamas 12,664
183 Madagascar 12,550
184 Nicaragua 12,528
185 Brunei 12,455
186 Equatorial Guinea 12,142
187 Moldova 11,688
188 Republic of Congo 11,576
189 Chad 11,026
190 Rwanda 10,209
191 Niger 9,443
192 Haiti 8,819
193 Kyrgyzstan 8,261
194 Tajikistan 8,152
195 Kosovo 7,996
196 Malawi 7,522
197 Maldives 5,786
198 Fiji 5,708
199 Mauritania 5,651
200 Togo 5,502
201 Montenegro 5,424
202 Barbados 5,189
203 Somalia 4,958
204 Eswatini 4,657
205 Sierra Leone 4,229
206 Guyana 4,121
207 Suriname 3,774
208 South Sudan 3,681
209 Burundi 3,573
210 Liberia 3,222
211 Djibouti 3,166
212 Timor-Leste 2,938
213 Aruba 2,903
214 Bhutan 2,842
215 Lesotho 2,741
216 Central African Republic 2,321
217 Eritrea 2,110
218 Cape Verde 2,013
219 Belize 2,001
220 St. Lucia 1,992
221 The Gambia 1,773
222 Antigua and Barbuda 1,688
223 Seychelles 1,644
224 San Marino 1,591
225 Solomon Islands 1,440
226 Guinea-Bissau 1,397
227 Grenada 1,238
228 Comoros 1,179
229 St. Kitts and Nevis 1,032
230 Vanuatu 951
231 Samoa 905
232 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 856
233 Dominica 593
234 Tonga 488
235 São Tomé and Príncipe 430
236 Micronesia 381
237 Palau 291
238 Marshall Islands 220
239 Kiribati 184
240 Nauru 108
241 Tuvalu 42

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[Thambi]

I'm seriously amazed by california. I think india is roughly the same now. its estimated to be 3.2 trillion in 2020 but still its very shocking that a country with 1.3 billion has the same GDP as a state with 40 million people.

[Kamal900]

I'm seriously amazed by california. I think india is roughly the same now. its estimated to be 3.2 trillion in 2020 but still its very shocking that a country with 1.3 billion has the same GDP as a state with 40 million people.

I'm more amazed of the fact that Dravidian states in India, despite Dravidians being more darker than their Indo-Aryan cousins in the North, are the most developed states in South Asia on par with Sri Lanka.

[Thambi]

I'm more amazed of the fact that Dravidian states in India, despite Dravidians being more darker than their Indo-Aryan cousins in the North, are the most developed states in South Asia on par with Sri Lanka.

nah its mostly cause the north central indian states are mjority agricultural based and land locked. the southern states have shipping ports so they have maritime trading and is heaviliy involved with manufacturing and IT as well. Its all interlinked. Usually coastal regions are the most populous in other populous countries like China, US, Indonesia, Brazil, etc. With India, though its fairly populous throughout the country, the gangetic plain is the most densely populated area and its all landlocked.

[Synapsid]

nah its mostly cause the north central indian states are mjority agricultural based and land locked. the southern states have shipping ports so they have maritime trading and is heaviliy involved with manufacturing and IT as well. Its all interlinked. Usually coastal regions are the most populous in other populous countries like China, US, Indonesia, Brazil, etc. With India, though its fairly populous throughout the country, the gangetic plain is the most densely populated area and its all landlocked.

There are cultural factors aswell. Look at female literacy, economic activity, age of marriage, tax payment rates, per capita homocides, communal violence levels etc in Karela vs Utter pradesh cities

[Daco Celtic]

I'm seriously amazed by california. I think india is roughly the same now. its estimated to be 3.2 trillion in 2020 but still its very shocking that a country with 1.3 billion has the same GDP as a state with 40 million people.

I always had the feeling that many of the elite of India, many Brahmin or whoever had access to higher education in India, relocated to California in large numbers. The Indians I have encountered here has always been highly educated without exception. Maybe you have a better grasp on India's immigration pattern to the US.

[Thambi]

I always had the feeling that many of the elite of India, many Brahmin or whoever had access to higher education in India, relocated to California in large numbers. The Indians I have encountered here has always been highly educated without exception. Maybe you have a better grasp on India's immigration pattern to the US.

Yeah to california, atleast in areas like silicon valley, its definitely the most elite indian groups whether in terms of wealth or education. Many of them are brahmins but there are many other hindu mid castes and several christians and muslims as well (where majority of these non hindu groups were converts in the past from low castes). The first group of indians to the US were punjabi sikhs and they arrived in the 1890s. they mostly went to fresno valley area and worked as farmers along with mexican americans. there is a decently sized punjabi-mexican community there in central cali i think.

[Kamal900]

Yeah to california, atleast in areas like silicon valley, its definitely the most elite indian groups whether in terms of wealth or education. Many of them are brahmins but there are many other hindu mid castes and several christians and muslims as well (where majority of these non hindu groups were converts in the past from low castes). The first group of indians to the US were punjabi sikhs and they arrived in the 1890s. they mostly went to fresno valley area and worked as farmers along with mexican americans. there is a decently sized punjabi-mexican community there in central cali i think.

Don't forget about the Gujaratis there as well. In fact, most of the early Indian migrants in Arabia before the discovery of oil were from Sindh, Gujarat and Maharashtra.