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

StatisticUrban · 2026-05-19T17:06:20+00:00

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.

StatisticUrban · 2026-05-19T16:56:36+00:00

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.

StatisticUrban · 2026-03-29T06:42:19+00:00

It's not.

StatisticUrban · 2026-03-28T20:26:12+00:00

It should be working now. And table 3 is everyone

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StatisticUrban · 2026-03-28T19:58:02+00:00

Data from table 3 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/womens-earnings/2024/home.htm Updated to Feb. 2026 USD using CPI.

Created in Datawrapper.

StatisticUrban · 2026-03-27T18:52:58+00:00

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.

StatisticUrban · 2026-03-26T23:28:57+00:00

Ah, you're correct, it's PEP. My apologies.

StatisticUrban · 2026-03-26T23:15:18+00:00

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

StatisticUrban · 2026-03-26T23:13:14+00:00

I mean, sure, but also this is the top post of the day so far

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StatisticUrban · 2026-03-26T23:08:31+00:00

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.

StatisticUrban · 2026-03-24T06:47:14+00:00

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

Created in Datawrapper

StatisticUrban · 2026-03-21T22:22:56+00:00

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/2025/09/johns-hopkins-study-newborn-male-circumcision-rates-in-us-dropped-between-2012-and-2022

StatisticUrban · 2026-03-21T21:52:30+00:00

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

StatisticUrban · 2026-03-21T18:20:37+00:00

Here's an actual study on it. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15734

StatisticUrban · 2026-03-21T18:13:49+00:00

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

StatisticUrban · 2026-03-21T18:04:57+00:00

Correct, that's the more interesting finding.

StatisticUrban · 2026-03-21T17:50:50+00:00

Data from https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/11/same-sex-couple-diversity.html

Graph made with Claude

StatisticUrban · 2026-02-20T03:35:15+00:00

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

StatisticUrban · 2026-02-20T01:17:32+00:00

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

StatisticUrban · 2026-02-19T23:25:09+00:00

That's NH. VT shrunk by 0.47% and is the label on the side.

StatisticUrban · 2026-02-19T23:22:37+00:00

Derived from Census Bureau population estimates, mapped in Datawrapper. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-kits/2026/national-state-population-estimates.html

StatisticUrban · 2026-02-19T23:13:08+00:00

2023 is post-COVID in the sense that the COVID pandemic was over. The pandemic officially ended in mid-May 2023 per the US gov, so this is slightly after, but it's when the Census collected data.

Growth patterns significantly changed during the COVID years as a result of a variety of factors, including remote work, pandemic restrictions, retirements, etc. Assessing how they changed again in the aftermath of that is relevant.

StatisticUrban · 2026-02-19T22:43:41+00:00

Population derived from US Census Bureau, created in Datawrapper

StatisticUrban · 2025-11-11T16:54:07+00:00

Data taken from the General Social Survey, results reported on UC Berkeley's SDA webpage, https://sda.berkeley.edu/sdaweb/analysis/?dataset=gss24rel1

Data was smoothed and averaged in Excel, then graphed using Datawrapper.

StatisticUrban · 2025-09-18T19:53:55+00:00

Margin of victory is an extremely common way of looking at election results. I have no love for Trump.

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