{"id":562204,"date":"2026-08-07T22:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562204\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:18:21","slug":"gdp-by-state-which-u-s-states-have-the-largest-economies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562204\/","title":{"rendered":"GDP by State: Which U.S. States Have the Largest Economies?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not necessarily. GDP measures the size of an economy, not how wealthy individual residents are. Large-population states naturally tend to produce more economic output because they have more workers and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Economists often use GDP per capita to compare economic output on a per-person basis. Smaller states such as Massachusetts, Washington and Delaware frequently rank much higher on that measure than they do by total GDP.<\/p>\n<p>We created this article in conjunction with AI technology, then made sure it was fact-checked and edited by a HowStuffWorks editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not necessarily. GDP measures the size of an economy, not how wealthy individual residents are. Large-population states naturally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-562204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}