Total US exports are $2.5 trillion, so blood is about 0.06% of that.
Edit: found a couple of reputable sources that put blood plus blood plasma exports in the $20 billion range. Possible that the discrepancy comes from whether plasma is included.
Re:The blood of poor Americans is now a leading export, bigg...
by downrightmike on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @10:52PM
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Kind of crazy that they are able to generate off of the bottom half of the US population. So out of the 175 million bottom 50% American population, with the actual donors being much smaller, their actual bodies produce a crazy amount of wealth that they can't capture and remain poor.
Re:The blood of poor Americans is now a leading export, bigg...
by sologuardsman2 on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @10:54PM
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OP cites a MintPress News article [1] which links to an OEC visualization [2], or in particular a page on "Human or Animal Blood" [3] like you mentioned. That page has the US at $28.6B to Ireland's $25.3B.
This article http://www.worldstopexports.com/top-blood-exporters-by-count... total US blood exports at $1.4 billion, a distant second to Ireland. That includes both human and animal blood, and I’m not sure what fractions human.
Soybean exports, on the other hand, are closer to $17 billion a year: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/international-markets-us-tra...
Total US exports are $2.5 trillion, so blood is about 0.06% of that.
Edit: found a couple of reputable sources that put blood plus blood plasma exports in the $20 billion range. Possible that the discrepancy comes from whether plasma is included.
So a cheeseburger each, basically.
[1] https://www.mintpressnews.com/harvesting-blood-americas-poor... [2] https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/usa/all/... [3] https://oec.world/en/profile/hs92/3002/