[Midwesterner19]

The Bureau of Economic Analysis data came out this morning.

North Dakota is now #50 with a 3rd quarter state personal income of 20.9 billion, Wyoming was 21.1 billion.

North Dakota has 636,000 people, Wyoming at 509,000 people as of 2005

Per Capita Income annualized: 33,000 dollars for North Dakota, 41,000 dollars for Wyoming.

This is suprising given both states are great economic shape, I would have that the oil boom in Western North Dakota would have kept the state just above Wyoming.

[Cleveland Brown]

Wyoming, definately not the midwest.

[Midwesterner19]

Apologize for injecting Wyoming into it.

I just was looking at numbers on the economics of North Dakota for the 3rd quarter of 2006 and was suprised they have officially the smallest economy in the country as far as total personal income for all residents of the state. I wonder if this is a sign that North Dakota's population is declining faster then thought or the out-migration is picking up again.

I wonder if this happened for the first time due to the persistant drought in the state. I was suprised because its a state with tons of oil and gas that has had very good job growth as of late.

[James Bond Agent 007]

Somebody's gotta be last.