Graph and download economic data for Gross Domestic Product: All Industry Total in California (CANGSP) from 1997 to 2024 about GSP, CA, industry, GDP, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Gross Domestic Product: All Industry Total in California (CANQGSP) from Q1 2005 to Q2 2025 about GSP, CA, industry, GDP, and USA.

In 2024, the real gross domestic product (GDP) of California was 3.37 trillion U.S. dollars. This is a slight increase from the previous year, when the state's GDP stood at 3.25 trillion U.S. dollars.

The gross domestic product (GDP) of California was about 4.1 trillion U.S. dollars in 2024, meaning that it contributed the most out of any state to the country’s GDP in that year. In contrast, Vermont had the lowest GDP in the United States, with 45.71 billion U.S. dollars. What is GDP? Gross domestic product, or GDP, is the total monetary value of all goods and services produced by an economy within a certain time period. GDP is used by economists to determine the economic health of an area, as well as to determine the size of the economy. GDP can be determined for countries, states and provinces, and metropolitan areas. While GDP is a good measure of the absolute size of a country's economy and economic activity, it does account for many other factors, making it a poor indicator for measuring the cost or standard of living in a country, or for making cross-country comparisons. GDP of the United States The United States has the largest gross domestic product in the world as of 2023, with China, Japan, Germany, and India rounding out the top five. The GDP of the United States has almost quadrupled since 1990, when it was about 5.9 trillion U.S. dollars, to about 25.46 trillion U.S. dollars in 2022.

Graph and download economic data for Real Gross Domestic Product: All Industry Total in California (CARGSP) from 1997 to 2024 about GSP, CA, real, industry, GDP, and USA.

In 2023, the finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing industry added the most value to California's gross domestic product, adding 577.27 billion chained 2017 U.S. dollars. The information industry added 452.26 billion U.S. dollars to the state GDP in that year.

In 2023, the state of California added about 3.2 trillion chained (2017) U.S. dollars of value to the U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP). Total real GDP amounted to about 22.7 trillion chained (2017) U.S. dollars.

Graph and download economic data for Gross Domestic Product: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting (11) in California (CAAGRNGSP) from 1997 to 2024 about hunting, forestry, fishing, agriculture, GSP, private industries, CA, private, industry, GDP, and USA.

This statistic shows the per capita real Gross Domestic Product of California from 2000 to 2019. In 2019, the per capita real GDP of California stood at 70,662 chained 2012 U.S. dollars.

Graph and download economic data for Gross Domestic Product: Government and Government Enterprises (92) in California (CAGOVNQGSP) from Q1 2005 to Q2 2025 about GSP, CA, government, industry, GDP, and USA.

California is the richest state of the United States. The state’s trade volume is currently about 58 billion U.S. dollars, with imports making about 75 percent of this value. Compared to Texas, the second-largest state after itself, California exported less goods to the rest of the world over this period. California’s economic contribution California’s economic output places the state at the top in the United States. Measured by GDP, California contributed 3.2 trillion U.S. dollars to the U.S. economy, 50 percent more than that of Texas. On a per capita basis, California’s GDP corresponds to almost 83 thousand U.S. dollars in real terms. Tech companies and wages in California California is the home to technology powerhouses of the United States. The world’s highest capping tech companies such as Apple and Google were founded and headquartered in California. According to a 2023 study, Silicon Valley was also the leading hub that offered the highest wages to tech workers. On average, a tech employee earned around 142 thousand dollars working for a Silicon Valley company.

This graph shows the GDP of the San Francisco Bay Area in 2023, by industry. In 2023, the GDP of the San Francisco metro area amounted to about ****billion U.S. dollars. About ***billion U.S. dollars were generated in the manufacturing industries. The overall quarterly GDP growth in the United States can be found here. The San Francisco Bay Area’s GDPThe San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a metropolitan region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas such as San Francisco-Oakland (12th largest in the country), San Jose (31st largest in the country), along with smaller urban and rural areas. Overall, the Bay Area consists of nine counties, *** cities, and ***** square miles. The nine counties are Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. The United States Census Bureau considers the Bay Area a Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with approximately *** million people, including the nine counties bordering San Francisco Bay as well as Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties, making it the sixth largest CSA in the United States. In the ten year period between 2001 and 2011, the Bay Area saw its GDP grow considerably. In 2001, GDP was *** billion U.S. dollars. This value rose to *** billion U.S. dollars by 2011. Additionally, California ranked first on a list of U.S. states by GDP, with *** trillion U.S. dollars of GDP in 2012. Silicon Valley, located in the Bay Area, is in great part responsible for the Bay Area’s and California’s high GDPs, as it is known as the center of the global technology industry. Companies like Google, Facebook, eBay and Apple are headquartered there.

Graph and download economic data for Gross Domestic Product: Finance and Insurance (52) in California (CAFININSNQGSP) from Q1 2005 to Q2 2025 about leases, real estate, rent, finance, insurance, GSP, private industries, CA, private, industry, GDP, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Gross Domestic Product: Manufacturing (31-33) in California (CAMANNQGSP) from Q1 2005 to Q2 2025 about GSP, private industries, CA, private, manufacturing, industry, GDP, and USA.

Real Gross Domestic Product: State and Local in California was 274738.20000 Mil. of Chn. 2009 $ in January of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Real Gross Domestic Product: State and Local in California reached a record high of 274738.20000 in January of 2024 and a record low of 183114.30000 in January of 1997. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Real Gross Domestic Product: State and Local in California - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on November of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for Gross Domestic Product: Military in California (CAGOVFEDMILNGSP) from 1997 to 2024 about military, GSP, federal, CA, government, industry, GDP, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Gross Domestic Product: Natural Resources and Mining (11, 21) in California (CANATRESMINNGSP) from 1997 to 2024 about natural resources, mining, GSP, CA, industry, GDP, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Real Gross Domestic Product: Private Industries in California (CAPIRQGSP) from Q1 2005 to Q2 2025 about GSP, private industries, CA, private, real, industry, GDP, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Gross Domestic Product: Retail Trade (44-45) in California (CARETAILNQGSP) from Q1 2005 to Q2 2025 about GSP, private industries, retail trade, CA, sales, retail, private, industry, GDP, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Gross Domestic Product: Utilities (22) in California (CAUTILNQGSP) from Q1 2005 to Q2 2025 about utilities, GSP, private industries, CA, private, industry, GDP, and USA.