Robust 2017 economic growth in California helped push the state to the world’s fifth-largest economy, surpassing the United Kingdom. Only the U.S., China, Japan, and Germany now have larger economies than California. The size of California’s economy is a little more than one-tenth of the size of China’s economy.
In 2017, California’s gross domestic product (GDP) reached $2.747 trillion, up by $127 billion from 2016. Table 1 ranks the world’s 25 largest economies.
Between 2016 and 2017, the leading contributor to California’s economic growth was the information sector, which accounted for one-quarter of the total gain, followed by durable-goods manufacturing; real estate and rental and leasing; and health care and social assistance. These industries were also the leading contributors to the national economic growth in 2017. Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting and nondurable-goods manufacturing were the sectors which contracted in 2017.
Real estate and rental and leasing were the leading contributors to real GDP increases in Colorado and Nevada. Health care and social assistance were the leading contributors to the increase in real GDP in Arizona. In Washington, retail trade and information drove the growth.
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