Jesse's Blog: North American economy

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Sunday, April 13, 2008

North American economy

N.A. is also Native America (not applicable?)

This website from '02 (http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/northamerica/engecon.htm) tells us how lucky (or as my mom would say, blessed) we really are.

The U.S. and Canada (I don't think this site includes Mexico, which I think, technically, is a part of N.A.) has 7% of the world's population, while creating 1/3 of the world's economic output (which I assume means wealth, not weight of merchandise, or something).

This averages to an expected $27,300 per capita in N.A. in 2010, up from $22,200 in 2000 (5x the world average).

We rock, America!

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