Fun with Maps and GDP

June 21, 2007

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For those of you with clients in the financial and professional services arena, here is a fun conversation piece or email forward. Each US state is renamed for countries with similar GDPs.

As strange maps puts it, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a convenient way of measuring and comparing the size of national economies. Annual GDP represents the market value of all goods and services produced within a country in a year. Put differently:

GDP = consumption + investment + government spending + (exports - imports)

I’m a map geek with six maps/globes in my office, so strange maps is one of my new favorite blogs.

Nod: Boing Boing

Filed Under Educational, Management 

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2 Responses to “Fun with Maps and GDP”

  1. Chris Brown on June 22nd, 2007 6:15 am

    Todd:
    I love maps too. Hmm Ohio = Australia… and Illinois = Mexico. I never would have put those together like that. Very interesting!!

    Perhaps you saw the post I wrote about worldmapper where the world is resized based on various metrics.

    http://brandandmarket.blogspot.com/2007/03/worldmapper-helps-to-put-it-all-into.html

    If you haven’t seen worldmapper, take a look. You’ll find it interesting I’m sure!
    Chris Brown
    Branding & Marketing blog

  2. Susan Gunelius on June 23rd, 2007 8:45 pm

    Todd,
    I also enjoy looking at maps, and this one is very interesting. Some of the comparisons definitely make you stop and think. It would be interesting to see the comparison using other metrics like education. I’ll have to check out the worldmapper maps that Chris mentioned. It’s always enlightening to see things like this in a graphic way rather than just charts of numbers. I’m a creative marketer, not an analytical one, so I like pictures!

    Susan Gunelius
    http://www.MarketingBlurb.com
    http://www.Brandcurve.com

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