US states — wealth and income
State-level Comprehensive Wealth from the US subnational two-version architecture.
Current map is a static export; an interactive version is planned.
The same balance-sheet identity, applied to 51 US states. Per the State of FAND briefing §3, the United States has two coexisting versions of its balance sheet — and that gap is an empirical finding:
| ISO3=USA (TL1) | FIPS=00000 (bottom-up) | |
|---|---|---|
| Sources | IMF, WB, OECD, FAO | BEA, BLS, Census, EIA, USGS, SSA |
| CW income base | Atlas GNI | GTP (HQ-bias corrected) |
| 1.2.2 Intergenerational | Structurally empty | Populated (Unfunded SS, Financial Overhang) |
| CW gap vs TL1 | reference | +5.9% (net-debtor ownership position) |
| NC gap vs TL1 | reference | −24.8% (county allocation < national) |
The gap between the two versions measures the empirical content of local institutional knowledge — what you can see from inside the US system that you cannot see from the internationally comparable view.
Related reading
- US counties — the same identity one level down, built bottom-up from 3,258 counties, and the county-level crosstab this page’s TL2/TL1 gap compares against.
- Five spatial scales — where TL2 (state) sits between TL1 (country) and TL3 (county) in the same identity.
- Global Leaves crosstab — the world-scale version of the density × wealth grid this page’s county-level companion refits to the US alone.
What’s here at launch
- State-level choropleth: CW per capita by state
- Per-state pages with full balance sheets
- The cross-border story shifts at this scale to interstate flows — where people live vs where they work across state lines. 13–399× larger than international flows for commuter-belt states.
A state-level density × wealth crosstab (the TL2 counterpart to the county chart on /evidence/us-counties/) is not yet rendered from source data — the choropleth above remains the primary planned visualization for this page.