US states by GDP by industry: information

California had the highest GDP by industry: information of 51 states in 2016, at $247.75 billion. Wyoming had the lowest, at $626.3 million. The median was $6.5 billion and the figure for the United States was $974.87 billion. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Highest247,746.3California

Lowest626.3Wyoming

Median6,498.351 states

United States974,870History

Map of states, 2016

Under 2,000
2,000 to 4,000
4,000 to 6,000
6,000 to 12K
12K to 26K
26K and over

USD million, 2016. Source: BEA, SAGDP2: gross domestic product (GDP) by state, Information (NAICS 51), millions of current dollars. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

All states, 2016

USD million. Source: BEA, SAGDP2: gross domestic product (GDP) by state, Information (NAICS 51), millions of current dollars. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	States	2016 USD million	Change on 2015
1	California	247,746.3	+9.9%
2	New York	125,377.6	+7%
3	Texas	60,914.5	+1.9%
4	Washington	54,322.9	+12.5%
5	Pennsylvania	50,672.3	+11.8%
6	Georgia	45,732.6	+14.4%
7	Florida	40,043.4	+6.7%
8	Illinois	27,908.1	+2.7%
9	Massachusetts	27,051.5	+2.2%
10	New Jersey	25,237.7	+1%
11	North Carolina	19,260.7	+7.4%
12	Virginia	19,050.1	-1.5%
13	Colorado	17,820.4	-0.3%
14	Maryland	17,098.6	+10.6%
15	Ohio	16,479.5	-0.4%
16	Connecticut	14,250.8	+7.1%
17	Michigan	12,899.1	+4%
18	Missouri	11,757.2	+0.4%
19	Minnesota	11,602.3	-2.1%
20	Wisconsin	10,846.6	+3.2%
21	Arizona	10,717.1	+7.5%
22	Tennessee	10,245	+7.2%
23	Oregon	7,428.7	+2.6%
24	Utah	7,355.9	+11.4%
25	District of Columbia	6,663.8	+5%
26	Indiana	6,498.3	-0.1%
27	Kansas	5,860	+7.4%
28	South Carolina	5,842.2	+5.8%
29	Oklahoma	5,301.6	+12.1%
30	Louisiana	4,969.7	-7.3%
31	Kentucky	4,653	+0.3%
32	Iowa	4,407.4	-4.1%
33	Alabama	4,342.2	-1.4%
34	Nevada	4,260.1	+13.2%
35	Nebraska	3,723.9	+10%
36	New Hampshire	3,157.3	+5.2%
37	New Mexico	2,756.7	+3.9%
38	Arkansas	2,663.4	+4%
39	Mississippi	2,461.2	+0.4%
40	Hawaii	1,855.8	+1.1%
41	Rhode Island	1,750.3	-2.3%
42	West Virginia	1,628.6	-0.9%
43	Idaho	1,495.5	+2.3%
44	Alaska	1,384.8	-3.4%
45	North Dakota	1,305	+7.5%
46	South Dakota	1,210.3	+0.4%
47	Maine	1,176.7	+6.5%
48	Delaware	1,108	-2.2%
49	Montana	1,097.7	+3.4%
50	Vermont	852.3	+1.2%
51	Wyoming	626.3	+1%

Other periods

About this ranking

Value added by information (publishing including software, film and sound, broadcasting, telecommunications and data services) (NAICS 51), the industry's contribution to gross domestic product (GDP), in millions of current US dollars. United States and states: Bureau of Economic Analysis GDP by state, table SAGDP2, line 45.

Millions of current US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; for real growth of the whole economy use gdp_growth. Industries are the sectors of the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), counted where production takes place. The 20 sector values of a place add up to its gdp_usd, apart from rounding. BEA leaves out values that would disclose a single company, marked (D), and values below $50,000, marked (L); they are missing here, not zero.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the states are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. SAGDP2: gross domestic product (GDP) by state, Information (NAICS 51), millions of current dollars. https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SAGDP.zip. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. (2026). SAGDP2: gross domestic product (GDP) by state, Information (NAICS 51), millions of current dollars (US states by GDP by industry: information, 2016) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SAGDP.zip

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SAGDP2: gross domestic product (GDP) by state, Information (NAICS 51), millions of current dollars, US states by GDP by industry: information, 2016. U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 30 Sept. 2026, https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SAGDP.zip. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/gdp-by-industry-information/us-states?period=2016. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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Which state has the highest GDP by industry: information?

California, with $247.75 billion in 2016, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Which state has the lowest GDP by industry: information?

Wyoming, with $626.3 million in 2016.

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