Alabama's gross domestic product for 2012 was slightly larger than that of the Middle Eastern nation of Kuwait, one analysis says.
Earlier this month, the American Enterprise Institute's Mark Perry compared the economic outputs of each state in the U.S. to nations with similarly sized economies. He even went so far as to build a map using those state-country pairs; that map is available here.
Alabama's GDP for 2012 was roughly $183.5 billion, Perry said, using data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. That's just slightly larger than the economy of Kuwait, which had an output of $183.2 billion in 2012, per United Nations data.
California, Texas, and New York, the states with the largest individual GDPs from the U.S., are each within a stone's throw of the economic output of Italy, Australia, and Mexico respectively in terms of economic output, according to the survey.
Vermont, the state with the smallest GDP, generates about the same amount of economic output as the European nation of Latvia.