Borrowing from an approach that sometimes appears in the finance sections of the popular press, LSGL analysis is a handy and versatile way to compare, portray and classify the patterns of growth across all of Hawaii’s 3 counties.

Here, we adopt this approach to gauge and compare the growth of Hawaii’s counties over the latest available year (2021) against the backdrop of their growth over the previous decade (2012-2021). In so doing, we classify their growth and performance into 4 broad categories: Leading, Slipping, Gaining and Lagging. Particular attention is given to highlighting and assessing the growth of:

• Employment
• Total Personal Income
• Total Industry Earnings
• Population
• Per Capita Income

This LSGL module dynamically generates and calibrates a barometer for gauging the economic growth and performance of the 3 counties of Hawaii wherein "…unlike in the land of Lake Wobegon, not all the counties are above average."