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That GDP number is way off. 1.5B / 1 million people is 1,500$ per person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._metropolitan_area... Gives 146B in 2018.

That’s 350M number is also extremely suspect, at a minimum including existing city residents as the hotel reservations are vastly below attendance.

Still even assuming that 350M was correct and not ridiculously inflated it’s 350/146,000 = 0.2%.

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You're confusing GDP with GDP per capita, and also 350,000,000 / 1,460,000,000 = 0.23972602739 and to convert that to a percentage you multiply by 100 so you get 23.973% as the result.

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The number from wikipedia was 146 Billion (26 Austin-Round Rock, TX 146,784 metropolitan statistical area in millions of dollars) if you looked at the link I gave. Which is 146,784,000,000, though you could argue the city is a smaller area. Remember, thousand 3 zeros, Million 6 zeros, Billion 9 zeroes.

The GDP per capita was simply a sanity check showing how 1.4B must be wildly wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._metropolitan_area...