Does it really matter that California's economy is the fourth largest in the world, since California isn't an independent ...

California's economy has exceeded Japan's, making the Golden State the fourth-largest economic power in the world, among other countries. California's nominal GDP in 2024 was $4.10 trillion ...

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, the globe’s fourth largest economy, surpassed only by the United ...

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

Status is tarnished by a jaded reception from the average resident facing rising housing, health care and food costs.

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, ...

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 ...

India is blooming into one of the world’s economic superpowers that will surely surpass California’s output some year soon. India’s $3.91 trillion GDP in 2024, just behind Japan. The IMF ...

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 ...