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

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.

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Three countries rank higher than California in GDP: the United States, China, and Germany.

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 ...

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, ...

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

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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 ...