California economy is now the world’s 4th-largest. But other measures are grim. California’s new status as the world’s fourth-largest economy “is a piece of history that is contradicted by ...

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 ...

The two natural candidates are the region’s historical powers, China and India, which were the world’s largest economies from 1 A.D. to 1820, before the rise of the industrial west.

California overtakes Japan as the world’s fourth largest economy. Governor Gavin Newsom relished in his state’s economic prowess but lambasted President Trump’s ‘reckless tariff policies’ ...