I am planning an article on US trade policy and in particular the export of its IP laws worldwide and so wondered how important big tech and creative media were to the US economy. So I looked it up, and was somewhat surprised. I then looked up the UK to see if I was equally surprised, and I present the two tables below.
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Thir divison into categories is interesting and not what I expected, and in the US it is my experience that they get confused between health care delivery and health insurance. The top two are health care related, No 6 is Petrol/Gas distribution and there remain three other categories of financial services which includes pension administration.
In the UK, the top two are supermarkets and construction. Construction would be No 1, if no 2 & 7 (Residential Construction) were added together. Healthcare aka hospitals is sixth.
I am interested in the abscene of software and hardware sales & rental within the US, and the abscence of the creative industries i.e. Hollywood and Nashville.
I went further, and checked the proportion of US GDP represented by trade, and also checked up the UK too. The US is low (25%), the UK is high (62%). The world average is 57%.
I added the facts about trade as a proportion of GDP today.