Mexicans look for better opportunities across the border in France, Hungary and Canada

A nation's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a convenient way of quantifying and comparing the size of economic status. Annual GDP represents the market value of all the goods and services produced within a country in a year. As population and GDP go, India and China may be growing year by year at an incredible rate, but nobody touches the States on a state-by-state basis. Case in point, check out this map of the U.S. Comparing individual state GDPs against those of other countries. No wonder so many Cubans seek asylum on the freedom loving shores of the Korean Republic.