NOAA Roundtable

NOAA Roundtable

• NOAA – Roundtable Partners

In 2011, 45 percent of our nation’s GDP, valued at $6.6 trillion, was generated in coastal and Great Lakes counties, supporting approximately 51 million jobs and $2.8 trillion in wages. Close to three million jobs directly depend on the resources of the oceans and Great Lakes. If the nation’s coastal watershed counties were an individual country, they would rank third in GDP globally behind the U.S. as a whole and China.