Monday, December 3, 2012

Houston economy ranked top in U.S., 40th worldwide via Your Houston News

The Brookings Global MetroMonitor has released it's 2011-2012 ranking of the largest 300 metropolitan economies worldwide, and Houston ranks the highest amongst United States cities. Houston moved up to 40 from its 2007-2011 of 194.

"Houston has partially recovered from a major recession," the Brookings Institute said. "It is outperforming the United States on employment change, but is lagging on GDP per capita change."

Houston has had a 1.7 percent GDP per capita increase and a 3.3 percent increase in employment. The city's total GPD is $399.7 billion.

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