 California now has a bigger economy than the United Kingdom, ranking 5th in the world 加利福尼亚州经济大于英国，成为世界上排行第5大经济体. California’s economy has surpassed that of the United Kingdom to become the world’s fifth largest, according to new federal data made public Friday. 根据星期五公布的最新联邦数据，加利福尼亚的经济已经超过英国成为世界第五大经济。 California’s gross domestic product rose by $127 billion from 2016 to 2017, surpassing $2.7 trillion, the data said. Meanwhile, the UK’s economic output slightly shrunk over that time when measured in U.S. dollars, due in part to exchange rate fluctuations. 数据称，从2016年到 2017，加利福尼亚的州内生产总值增长了1270亿美元, 超过了2.7 万亿美元。与此同时，由于汇率波动，英国的经济产值比同期用美元计算时略有萎缩，这也和汇率变化有关。 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. 这个数据显示了加利福尼亚的经济非常庞大，该州有近4000万人口，硅谷蓬勃发展的技术工业，世界娱乐之都好莱坞和中央山谷中心地带的农业蔬菜基地。这也显示了自大萧条以来的重大转变。 “We have the entrepreneurial spirit in the state, and that attracts a lot of talent and money,” said Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at California State University Channel Islands. “And that’s why, despite high taxes and cumbersome government regulations, more people are coming into the state to join the parade.” 加州州立大学海峡群岛的经济学教授 孙文松（译音） 说: “我们的州富有创业精神，吸引了很多人才和财富。”这就是为什么，尽管有高税收和繁琐的政府法规，还是有更多的人来加州加入我们的行列。“ All economic sectors except agriculture contributed to California’s higher GDP, said Irena Asmundson, chief economist at the California Department of Finance. Financial services and real estate led the pack at $26 billion in growth, followed by the information sector, which includes many technology companies, at $20 billion. Manufacturing was up $10 billion. 加州财政部首席经济学家Irena Asmundson 表示，除农业外，所有经济部门都为加州的 GDP 增加作出了贡献。金融服务和房地产在增长中以260亿美元领先，其次是200亿美元的信息工业，其中包括许多科技公司。制造业上升了100亿美元。 California last had the world’s fifth largest economy in 2002 but fell as low as 10th in 2012 following the Great Recession. Since then, the largest U.S. state has added 2 million jobs and grown its GDP by $700 billion. 上一次加利福尼亚位列世界第五大经济体是在2002年，但在经济大衰退之后的2012年，加州最低跌至第十位。自那时起至今，这个美国最大的州增加了200万个就业机会，并将 GDP 增长了7000亿美元。 California’s economic output is now surpassed only by the total GDP of the United States, China, Japan and Germany. The state has 12 percent of the U.S. population but contributed 16 percent of the country’s job growth between 2012 and 2017. Its share of the national economy also grew from 12.8 percent to 14.2 percent over that five-year period, according to state economists. 加州的经济产值在GDP上现在仅落后于美国、中国、日本和德国的 GDP 总额。该州有12% 的美国人口，但在2012至2017期间，该州的就业增长却为全美国贡献了16%。根据该州的经济学家的数据，该州在五年期间的占全国经济的份额也从12.8% 增长到14.2%。 California’s strong economic performance relative to other industrialized economies is driven by worker productivity, said Lee Ohanian, an economics professor at University of California, Los Angeles and director of UCLA’s Ettinger Family Program in Macroeconomic Research. The United Kingdom has 25 million more people than California but now has a smaller GDP, he said. 加州大学洛杉矶分校的经济学教授兼UCLA Ettinger 家族宏观经济研究项目主任Lee Ohanian 说，与其他工业化经济体相比，加利福尼亚强劲的经济表现是由工人生产力驱动的。他说，英国的人口比加利福尼亚多 2500万，但现在的 GDP却相比之下小于加利福尼亚。 California’s economic juggernaut is concentrated in coastal metropolises around San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego. 加利福尼亚的经济巨头集中在旧金山、圣何塞、洛杉矶和圣地亚哥周边的沿海大城市。 “The non-coastal areas of CA have not generated nearly as much economic growth as the coastal areas,” Ohanian said in an email. Ohanian 在一封电子邮件中说: "加州的非沿海地区的经济增长与沿海地区的增长速度不能相题并论." The state calculates California’s economic ranking as if it were a country by comparing state-level GDP from the Bureau of Economic Analysis at the U.S. Department of Commerce with global data from the International Monetary Fund. 州政府用从美国商务部经济分析局和国际货币基金组织 (IMF) 的全球数据进行对比， 把加利福尼亚当作一个国家，来计算加州的经济排名。 👇 |
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