Since Gavin Newsom became governor, state spending has increased an average 9% a year while revenues grew 6%. That's called a ...

At that time, China didn't rank in the top fifth, though it was scuttling upward. The year before, California had fallen to ...

California's nominal GDP in 2024 was $4.10 trillion, per the Bureau of Economic Analysis, overtaking Japan's $4.03 trillion in the same period, per the International Monetary Fund ...

California’s economy continued to grow at a fast clip of 6% in 2024, according to data and Newsom’s office. The top three economies in the world all grew at slower rates: 5.3% in the entire U.S., 2.6% ...

California is now the fourth-largest global economy, with the state's governor using that to attack Trump's tariff policy. Where does Arizona stand?

Japan ranked fifth at $4.02 trillion. “California isn’t just keeping pace with the world – we’re setting the pace,” Newsom said in a news release. “Our economy is thriving because we invest in people, ...

California’s $4.1 trillion output last year jumped its long-standing No. 5 global ranking to slip past Japan’s $4.03 trillion ...

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

California might boast that it’s the world’s 4th-largest economy, but the statewide job market is one of the nation’s weakest ...

California is not the only state economy that’s a business powerhouse on a global scale. The state’s businesses produced $4.1 ...

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

California’s economic output has surpassed $4 trillion a year and in doing so slipped past Japan to become, were it a nation, ...