Figure 2.

Number of US Export‐Related Jobs at Risk due to Illustrative Outbreak Scenario, by Stages^1–3

Note: Number of US jobs estimated number of jobs supported by US 2015 exports to countries included in illustrative outbreak scenario, where stages correspond to the degree that the outbreak is not contained to 1 country and the countries directly affected (Table 1). Categories listed on the horizontal axis depict the following countries and the stages of the outbreak: Stage I: Cambodia; Stage II: Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia; Stage III: Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, and China (Table 1). Assumes a 1‐to‐1 correlation between the reduction in demand for US exports and the epidemic‐related reduction in gross domestic product (GDP) (see Table 2 and Appendix Table 2).