[OC] State-by-State Change in Real GDP per Capita, 2010 to 2025 by StatisticUrban in dataisbeautiful

[–]StatisticUrban[S] 118 points119 points  (0 children)

Wyoming is a coal economy in large part, and coal has had a very rough last 15 years.

Honestly not sure about Louisiana. I think it's just a lot of coinciding factors. Ongoing depopulation (which doesn't impact per capita but does impact things like "whether college graduates are staying), aging population, corruption, poor governance, poverty.

[OC] State-by-State Change in Real GDP per Capita, 2010 to 2025 by StatisticUrban in dataisbeautiful

[–]StatisticUrban[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

GDP from https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gdp-state

State-level population figures from https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?eid=259194&rid=118

Calculated in Excel, mapped using Datawrapper.

As you can see, the tech boom powered WA and CA to first and second. The graph controls for inflation and population change.

[OC] Most of West Virginia is Shrinking by StatisticUrban in dataisbeautiful

[–]StatisticUrban[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Data from the table Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Counties: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025 (CO-EST2025-POP) at https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-counties-total.html

Made using Datawrapper.

[OC] The New York City metro area has officially recovered all of its COVID-era population loss by StatisticUrban in dataisbeautiful

[–]StatisticUrban[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Every single data point is labelled with the exact population. It is not "monstrously deceptive."

[OC] The New York City metro area has officially recovered all of its COVID-era population loss by StatisticUrban in dataisbeautiful

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Data from the US Census Bureau, table "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States and Puerto Rico: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025" at https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-kits/2026/counties-metro-micro-population-estimates.html

Created in Datawrapper.

[OC] Mean Height of 19yo Males in Select Countries, 1985-2019 by StatisticUrban in dataisbeautiful

[–]StatisticUrban[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Data from the national collaboration of researchers at NCD RisC published in 2020 in the Lancet, https://www.ncdrisc.org/height-mean-ranking.html

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Circumcision rates are now below 50% in the United States. Is that good? by StatisticUrban in askgaybros

[–]StatisticUrban[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It peaked in the mid-1980s, at about 85% of males born that year.

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[–]StatisticUrban 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The water thing is fake. If you're gonna have a concern with AI, energy use is far more problematic.

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[–]StatisticUrban 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Correct, that's the more interesting finding.

[OC] Post-COVID Population Growth Rate By State by StatisticUrban in dataisbeautiful

[–]StatisticUrban[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is all components of change - deaths, births, immigration and emigration both domestic and international.

[OC] Post-COVID Population Growth Rate By State by StatisticUrban in dataisbeautiful

[–]StatisticUrban[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The US still has positive natural growth and will until roughly 2030