California's economy is the largest in the United States and fourth-largest in the world with a $4.1 trillion GDP as of 2024.

It is not unexpected to find that some persons are ignorant of current events. Recently the gross domestic product ranking of California has been misstated as “fifth largest.” To inform: […] ...

Opinion Opinion: California’s 4th-ranked economy is also high in unemployment and poverty by Dan Walters • CalMatters Columnist May 17, 2025, 10:00 a.m.

GDP is a widely watched broad measure of business output. My trusty spreadsheet shows that, domestically speaking, California ranked first with $4.198 trillion in GDP in this year’s first quarter.

Still, California is no stranger to the upper levels of unemployment rankings. June 2025 was the 19th time the state ranked No. 1 in the 594 months dating to January 1976. That’s the eighth-highest ...

California’s economy is the fourth largest in the world, surpassing most countries with a state gross domestic product of $4.1 trillion, which measures the total value of goods and services produced.

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 ...