Visual Capitalist: World's Largest Metropolitan Area GDPs

[dimondpark]

Their take.

Metropolitan Area by GDP(millions of USD)
$2,055,698 Tokyo
$1,874,398 New York
$1,133,627 Los Angeles
$978,402 London
$934,168 Paris
$926,790 Seoul
$714,697 Chicago
$699,474 Osaka-Kobe
$636,449 Rhine-Ruhr
$633,935 Shanghai
$593,629 San Francisco
$591,374 Beijing
$578,985 Washington DC
$523,854 Dallas-Fort Worth
$513,211 Boston
$504,808 Moscow
$489,377 Houston
$455,694 Shenzhen
$455,653 Philadelphia
$452,292 Toronto
$444,337 Seattle
$432,009 Atlanta
$407,838 Taipei-Taoyuan
$407,562 Chonqing
$405,355 Guangzhou
$398,037 Sydney
$388,725 Miami
$379,301 Nagoya
$374,394 Singapore
$368,633 Hong Kong
$359,111 San Jose
$329,529 Milan
$318,677 Melbourne
$308,250 Jakarta
$301,510 Suzhou
$283,330 San Diego
$280,937 Madrid
$278,841 Phoenix
$277,379 Mumbai
$272,603 Delhi
$272,373 Minneapolis-St Paul
$267,731 Detroit
$261,642 Sao Paulo
$260,642 Chengdu
$252,145 Busan
$252,128 Bangkok
$250,455 Mexico City
$249,764 Munich
$248,721 Hangzhou
$247,312 Istanbul
$243,160 Berlin
$235,664 Tianjin

The Chart:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-...tribution.html

Article:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-...tribution.html

[10023]

Seems reasonable at least at the top.

[Yuri]

I used to update a thread of mine with such numbers. I was very careful and those numbers seem to match:

Originally Posted by yuriandrade

Guys, updating the list.

Till to 2017, the US didn't released GDP data for counties, only for MSA, and therefore the CSAs posted here are incomplete, lacking of their micropolitan components.

For population/definition of areas outside the US, refer to previous posts and the last page. Europe's are NUTS-2 based, Brazil's micropolitan based and China's on prefectures based, and therefore all of them have broader definitions to be more comparable to the United States' CSAs.

GDP 2017

UNITED STATES ---------------- 19,485,400
CHINA --------------------------- 12,062,281
JAPAN ---------------------------- 4,859,951
GERMANY -------------------------- 3,700,613
BRITAIN --------------------------- 2,639,974
FRANCE --------------------------- 2,587,682
BRAZIL --------------------------- 2,053,208
ITALY ------------------------------ 1,946,888
SPAIN ------------------------------ 1,316,951
NETHERLANDS ---------------------- 832,239
SWEDEN ----------------------------- 535,607
BELGIUM ---------------------------- 495,757
AUSTRIA ---------------------------- 417,672
HONG KONG ------------------------- 341,659
SINGAPORE ------------------------- 336,679
DENMARK --------------------------- 329,866
FINLAND ----------------------------- 252,809
CZECH REPUBLIC ------------------- 215,914
GREECE ------------------------------ 203,493
HUNGARY --------------------------- 139,761

NEW YORK ----------------- 1,947,623
LOS ANGELES -------------- 1,252,514
LONDON ------------------- 1,068,058
SAN FRANCISCO -------------- 878,006
PARIS ---------------------- 800,448
WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE ------- 751,186
SHANGHAI-SUZHOU ------------ 702,830
RHEIN-RUHR ----------------- 694,310
CHICAGO -------------------- 688,224
BOSTON --------------------- 605,307
DALLAS --------------------- 539,906
PHILADELPHIA --------------- 495,188
HOUSTON -------------------- 490,074
GUANGZHOU-FOSHAN ----------- 459,920
AMSTERDAM-ROTTERDAM -------- 447,708
SHENZHEN-DONGGUAN ---------- 444,630
MILANO --------------------- 429,972
SÃO PAULO ------------------ 424,921
BEIJING -------------------- 414,710
ATLANTA -------------------- 405,185
SEATTLE -------------------- 387,115
MIAMI ---------------------- 364,287
HONG KONG ------------------ 341,659
SINGAPORE ------------------ 336,679
BRUXELLES-ANTWERPEN -------- 318,152
DETROIT -------------------- 302,784
MÜNCHEN -------------------- 296,618
TIANJIN -------------------- 275,410
MINNEAPOLIS ---------------- 270,332
MADRID --------------------- 248,335
DENVER --------------------- 246,728
PHOENIX -------------------- 242,951
STUTTGART ------------------ 236,782
MANCHESTER-LIVERPOOL ------- 234,980
BERLIN --------------------- 232,187
SAN DIEGO ------------------ 231,845
FRANKFURT ------------------ 225,951
ROMA ----------------------- 217,947
PORTLAND ------------------- 202,430
BIRMINGHAM ----------------- 193,028
CLEVELAND ------------------ 192,269
CHARLOTTE ------------------ 174,029
WIEN ----------------------- 170,670
KØBENHAVN ------------------ 167,750
STOCKHOLM ------------------ 167,220
RIO DE JANEIRO ------------- 164,825
ST. LOUIS ------------------ 161,281
INDIANAPOLIS --------------- 153,878
ORLANDO -------------------- 152,451
PITTSBURGH ----------------- 151,590
AUSTIN --------------------- 148,750
TAMPA ---------------------- 146,349
KANSAS CITY ---------------- 141,276
SALT LAKE CITY ------------- 139,902
CINCINNATI ----------------- 138,034
COLUMBUS ------------------- 136,296
NASHVILLE ------------------ 133,251
SACRAMENTO ----------------- 132,376
SAN ANTONIO ---------------- 129,298
RALEIGH -------------------- 126,762
LAS VEGAS ------------------ 116,631
NAPOLI --------------------- 120,125
LEEDS-SHEFFIELD ------------ 114,589
MILWAUKEE ------------------ 113,507
HELSINKI -------------------- 97,871
ATHÍNA ---------------------- 96,258
CAMPINAS -------------------- 84,316
BRASÍLIA -------------------- 82,201
PRAHA ----------------------- 80,739
BELO HORIZONTE--------------- 69,233
BUDAPEST -------------------- 65,751
PORTO ALEGRE ---------------- 58,907
GENOA ----------------------- 55,660
DRESDEN --------------------- 54,757
CURITIBA -------------------- 52,727
RECIFE ---------------------- 41,018
SALVADOR -------------------- 37,186
LEIPZIG --------------------- 36,784
FORTALEZA ------------------- 29,774
GOIÂNIA --------------------- 28,400
MANAUS ---------------------- 23,887
VITÓRIA --------------------- 21,700
BELÉM ----------------------- 15,850

--- Sun Belt areas growing faster in general;

--- British and Brazilian metro areas slightly recovering from their currencies downfall in the previous list;

--- Chinese prefectures for the first time grouped (e.g. Shanghai-Fuzhou).

There are few problems: Taipei GDP is the size of Taiwan. It's obviously inflated. São Paulo metro area GDP is roughly 1/5 of Brazil's, so it's underestimated there.

[JMKeynes]

New York is amazing! It's good to be the Financial Capital of the World!

[pizzaguysrevenge]

Amazing that California has two of the Top 5 once you combine SF + SJ.

[edale]

I'm surprised to see Hong Kong and Singapore so low.

[JManc]

Can someone tell me why SF and SJ are broken up into two metros? I can drive from one to the other in less time to get from one side of Houston to the other. And both have shit for traffic...

[homebucket]

Originally Posted by JManc

Can someone tell me why SF and SJ are broken up into two metros? I can drive from one to the other in less time to get from one side of Houston to the other. And both have shit for traffic...

That's just how it's always been. By definition they are separate metros, although they are close enough to be one. If you superimpose Houston proper onto the peninsula, it looks like it would just about contain the south edge of SF and the northern edge of SJ.

[ChiSoxRox]

Originally Posted by JManc

Can someone tell me why SF and SJ are broken up into two metros? I can drive from one to the other in less time to get from one side of Houston to the other. And both have shit for traffic...

I am presuming they follow the Census Bureau standards, and the CB breaks up the Bay due to commuters between Santa Clara and the other counties not reaching the (iirc 25%) threshold to join the SF MSA.

Yeah, it's silly imo. If I had the power, I would add a criterion that continuous development over some length would also join up MSAs into one (LA + Inland Empire, DC + Baltimore, NYC + Fairfield County, etc.)

[MolsonExport]

$699,474 Osaka-Kobe

But still listed on par with Guatemala City on the GAWC lists.

[mhays]

Originally Posted by ChiSoxRox

I am presuming they follow the Census Bureau standards, and the CB breaks up the Bay due to commuters between Santa Clara and the other counties not reaching the (iirc 25%) threshold to join the SF MSA.

Yeah, it's silly imo. If I had the power, I would add a criterion that continuous development over some length would also join up MSAs into one (LA + Inland Empire, DC + Baltimore, NYC + Fairfield County, etc.)

I thought the SF area passed the bar, except they also need more than a three-mile-wide connection. Or something like that.

[dubu]

california went lower, they legalized weed and got lazy?

[Wigs]

I'm kind of surprised Toronto is that low. I thought it would have "slotted" somewhere between Houston and SF

I'm sure in 5-10 years it will be further up the list

[mhays]

Well, all of this stuff is past-tense.

[Crawford]

Canadian metros have low GDP relative to U.S. metros. Incomes, expenditures and production are generally significantly lower.

So Toronto seems pretty high, all things considered. It's basically the same as Philly, which doesn't make much sense to me. Philly has only a slightly smaller metro but probably has 50% higher per capita GDP.

Also, some of these "metros" make zero sense. There is no Rhein-Ruhr metro. If that's a metro, even U.S.-style CSAs are far too restrictive. Rhein-Ruhr is a metro like the Northeast Corridor is a metro.

[10023]

Originally Posted by Wigs

I'm kind of surprised Toronto is that low. I thought it would have "slotted" somewhere between Houston and SF

I'm sure in 5-10 years it will be further up the list

Canada not the US.

[Manitopiaaa]

I remember when these graphics would have been full of European cities. Outside of the Big 5, they've all largely fallen off.

[The North One]

Originally Posted by edale

I'm surprised to see Hong Kong and Singapore so low.

GDP measure is not an exact science, it's a flawed methodology. So take it all with salt.

[jtown,man]

I've been told for 5 years that London will be destroyed because of the very conversation of Brexit.

Yeah, those folks were entirely wrong.

[ocman]

Originally Posted by JManc

Can someone tell me why SF and SJ are broken up into two metros? I can drive from one to the other in less time to get from one side of Houston to the other. And both have shit for traffic...

There's no reason other than being outdated. Of all of them, it makes the least sense. The separation is done on a seamless urbanized area. Just a random line between Sunnyvale and Mountain View, which you can't tell are two different cities except on a map.