Urban Coalition Economic Baseline                                  

Consider the following facts:

• About half of the U.S. population lives within one of the 48 major metropolitan urban centers in America. 

• Eighty five percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is produced in 259 major and minor urban metropolitan areas throughout America. 

• The United States economy makes up approximately 23% of the global output and boasts an annual economic productivity of 17.3 trillion dollars.

• The U.S.’s metropolitan urban centers are expected to “generate more than ten percent of global GDP growth in the next 15 years, a larger contribution than all of the large cities of other developed countries combined.”   

• The greater New York City's metropolitan area alone contributes up to 1.5 trillion dollars of economic productivity.  

• Baltimore’s economic productivity contributes approximately 181 billion dollars to the nations GDP.