California's gross domestic product rose by US$127 billion from 2016 to 2017, surpassing US$2.7 trillion, the data said. Meanwhile, the UK's economic output fell slightly over that time when measured in US dollars, due in part to exchange rate fluctuations.
The data demonstrate the sheer immensity of California's economy, home to nearly 40 million people, a thriving technology sector in Silicon Valley, the world's entertainment capital in Hollywood and the nation's salad bowl in the Central Valley agricultural heartland. It also reflects a substantial turnaround since the Great Recession.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 07 2018, @08:15PM
It also has water. So much water. All the water! Waterama!
You know, except for the part where if it left the US and other states started taking back water rights, California would have to build massive desalination plants to have any hope of maintaining those burgeoning, successful communities.
Environmental engineers are rather sceptical of California's independent viability. Something about dihydrogen monoxide.