According to preliminary data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, California's economy is now the fourth largest in the world, surpassing Japan.

If California were its own country, its economy would now rank as the fourth largest of any nation in the globe, Gov. Gavin ...

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The state is confronting what officials say is an unprecedented confluence of forces that will test its long record of ...

The World Population Review ranks California as the state with the third-highest cost of living for 2025, following Hawaii ...

California in 2024 claimed the world’s fourth-largest economy, by some curious math. Whether the state remains at this high, ...

California’s economic output has surpassed $4 trillion a year and in doing so slipped past Japan to become, were it a nation, the globe’s fourth largest economy, surpassed only by the United ...

California is the nation’s top state for new business starts, access to venture capital funding, and manufacturing, high-tech ...

Forget the wildfires, earthquakes, water shortages and all the other factors that place the California dream in doubt, ...

behind Japan (fifth), but also behind Russia, Brazil and Indonesia. For those reasons, it may make more sense to measure California's economy against those of other states. In that respect ...