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.

California's GDP now exceeds that of Japan, making it the fourth largest economy in the world, according to the International Monetary Fund.

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The Californian economy has overtaken Japan's to become the fourth-largest in the world by gross domestic product (GDP). That is according to data from the International Monetary Fund ( IMF) and the ...

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 ...