Nearly 32% of Metro Miami's growth in 2011 was foreign-born, and more than half went on to become US citizens. While South Florida's population has been fairly stagnant for a decade, it's starting an unexpected shift upward, with Miami-Dade's population growing 2.1% in one year.
economy. 1  thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc. 2  an act or means of thrifty saving; a saving: He achieved a small economy by walking to work instead of taking a bus. 3  the management of the resources of a community, country, etc., especially with a view to its productivity.
The United States is the world's largest economy. And it is made up of huge metropolitan economies, many of which are bigger than the economies of entire countries around the world. In it, they rank U.S. metropolitan areas against various countries. We pulled the 12 cities with economies that rank with the world's 50 largest economies.