Comparing US State GDPs with countries.

[highwaystar101]

Kasz216 said:

highwaystar101 said:

I find it depressing that California's GDP is near to the size of Britain's, this wasn't the case just a couple of years ago I swear.

For the record

British GDP

2007 2,799,040,362,405 (High Point)

2009 2,174,529,808,278

 

Californa

2006(couldn't find 2007) 1,812,968   (for refrence UK was about 2,400,000,000)

2009 1,891,260,000,000 

 

So... seems more like UK drop combined with just California slow crawl.

Of course with 1.5 billions in unpaid pensions... and all sorts of other debt problems... I wouldn't be surprised if California started to drop rapidly.  I hear senators are working on State bankruptcy laws just for the occasion.  (Well and a few other states.)

Ah ha, thanks for the research Kasz. So there is some validity in my statement, California hasn't fallen, but the UK has had a big drop (which we all knew any way).