California is the fourth-largest economy in the world, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday.

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.

California’s economy has grown to overtake yet another foreign country, putting the state at the fourth-largest in the world if it were to be considered separate from the rest of the U.S. KTLA's David Lazarus reports.