California’s economy continues to dominate and grow at a faster rate than the world’s top economies, with new data showing it has overtaken Japan as

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.

If California were its own country, its economy would now rank as the fourth largest of any nation in the globe, Gov. Gavin Newsom said this week.