Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows which countries the US has a trade surplus in goods (both manufactured and non-manufactured commodities) with and which ones it has a trade deficit.
The data is for the 11 months up to Nov 2024 and comes from the US census FT900 report.
However, it should be noted that the data is for good only. The US actually has a slight trade surplus in services, but a very large trade deficit in goods.
Here is the full data by country:
The map above shows each US state’s international trade surplus or deficit (or balance of trade) in goods per capita for the 11 months ending November 2024.
This includes both Manufactured Commodities and Non-Manufactured Commodities.
States in blue have a trade surplus in goods while those in red have a trade deficit.
The map above shows the most important country of origin for each state’s imports.
As you can see Canada, China and Mexico are the big 3, all of which have been threatened with Tariffs by the Trump government.
Top 3 Import Partners By Number of States:
Those who have no idea its history, could reasonably assume that each state has only been admitted once to the United States.
Of course once you remember the Civil War, you realise that all the Confederate states had to be admitted a second time after the defeat of the Confederacy by the Union.
But what then of Georgia?
The map above shows what the French call the “Gulf of America”. To them it’s still just: “Le Golfe du Mexique.”
On January 20, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America within U.S. federal documents and communications.
The map above comes from the cover of Daniel Immerwahr’s best selling book: How To Hide An Empire: A History of the Greater United States.
Out of curiosity I decided to look at the size of the various territories mentioned on the cover relative to the size of the 48 contiguous United States.
All the three horse related maps here are the work of @hdk_maps.
The map above shows The number of horses per capita in the United States.
All the maps here are the work of Josh Katz.
The first 9 are from his book Speaking American: How Y’all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: a Visual Guide and the rest are from his earlier work as a PhD student in statistics at North Carolina State University.
This map solves that.
From the author:
Map created by Visual Capitalist
The map above shows shows the number of Fortune 500 companies that are headquartered in each state. The data comes from the 2024 edition of the Fortune 500, which ranks America’s top companies by revenue (and not by profit or number of employees).
Here’s the full list by state: