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Re:US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs by breily on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @09:03PM (#119366)
That surprised me too - but I'm guessing its because their GDP is almost entirely from oil, whereas the US economy is very distributed.

Edit: Guess I was wrong.

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Re:US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs by DocSavage on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @09:06PM (#119369)
From Wikipedia (probably taken from CIA factbook):

"The petroleum sector accounts for roughly 75% of budget revenues, 45% of GDP, and 90% of export earnings."

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