Fun With Numbers: What Countries Have a Lower GDP Than the Estimated Cost of Our Election?
via 401(k) 2012 at flickr.com.
As the 2012 contest comes to a close, those of us with election fatigue are not only looking forward to drinking away any and all memories of the campaign trail this evening.
We are also taken aback by just how much $6 billion — the estimated cost of total election spending — really is.
So, to put everything in context, here is a list of all the countries with estimated gross domestic products lower than $6 billion.*
Somalia — $5,896,000,000
Guyana — $5,857,000,000
Monaco — $5,470,000,000
Burundi — $ 5,250,000,000
Sierra Leone — $5,158,000,000
Suriname — $5,125,000,000
Jersey — $5,100,000,000
Liechtenstein — $5,003,000,000
French Polynesia — $4,718,000,000
Bermuda — $4,500,000,000
Bhutan — $ 4,342,000,000
Fiji (where the water in square bottles comes from) — $4,186,000,000
Eritrea — $4,089,000,000
Lesotho — $3,853,000,000
Central African Republic — $ 3,688,000,000
Gambia, The — $3,541,000,000
Andorra — $3,169,000,000
New Caledonia — $ 3,158,000,000
Maldives — $2,877,000,000
Curacao — $ 2,838,000,000
Belize — $2,836,000,000
Guernsey — $2,742,000,000
Isle of Man — $2,719,000,000
Guam — $2,500,000,000
Seychelles — $2,274,000,000
Djibouti — $2,260,000,000
Aruba — $2,258,000,000
Cayman Islands — $2,250,000,000
Greenland — $2,133,000,000
Saint Lucia — $2,128,000,000
Cape Verde — $2,078,000,000
Guinea-Bissau — $1,950,000,000
Liberia — $1,792,000,000
Solomon Islands — $ 1,747,000,000
Antigua and Barbuda — $1,595,000,000
Virgin Islands — $1,577,000,000
Faroe Islands — $1,471,000,000
Grenada — $1,468,000,000
Gibraltar — $1,275,000,000
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines — $1,275,000,000
Vanuatu — $1,219,000,000
San Marino — $ 1,136,000,000
Samoa — $1,104,000,000
Dominica — $989,500,000
Western Sahara — $906,500,000
Northern Mariana Islands — $900,000,000
Saint Kitts and Nevis — $886,200,000
British Virgin Islands — $853,400,000
Comoros — $847,700,000
Sint Maarten — $794,700,000
Tonga — $772,800,000
Kiribati — $606,700,000
American Samoa — $575,300,000
Sao Tome and Principe — $383,900,000
Micronesia, Federated States of — $238,100,000
Turks and Caicos Islands — $216,000,000
Cook Islands — $183,200,000
Anguilla — $175,400,000
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) — $164,500,000
Palau — $164,000,000
Marshall Islands — $133,500,000
Nauru — $60,000,000
Wallis and Futuna — $60,000,000
Saint Pierre and Miquelon — $48,300,000
Montserrat — $43,780,000
Tuvalu — $37,470,000
Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha — $18,000,000
Niue — $10,010,000
Tokelau — $ 1,500,000
*We’re sure this type of article has been written before, but whatevs. WE ARE TIRED OF THE ELECTION. THIS TIRED. DID WE SAY THAT ALREADY? Anyway, all these numbers come from the CIA World Factbook. So blame The Man if you dispute the nation status of any of the countries listed here, etc.
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