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California Department of Finance

State cabinet-level agency within the government of California

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Oct 30, 2025
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What is the estimated population of California as of 2025?

California’s estimated population as of January 1, 2025 is , based on provisional state reporting that counts an increase of . This figure comes from the California Department of Finance and was reite...

Nov 4, 2025
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How did California's population change between 2020 and 2025 (net migration, births, deaths)?

California’s population fell during the early pandemic years, then returned to modest growth by mid-2024: , followed by , driven by increased international migration and a reduction in domestic out-mi...

Nov 17, 2025
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Is california's economy strong?

California remains a global economic heavyweight — its 2023 GDP was about $3.9 trillion and the state accounts for roughly 14% of U.S. GDP, and California has been described as rivaling or exceeding l...

Nov 6, 2025

What are the estimated annual costs of providing state-funded healthcare to undocumented immigrants in California?

California’s recent expansions of Medi‑Cal to cover undocumented immigrants have resulted in in March 2025 reporting, with officials and analysts citing a mix of higher enrollment, pharmacy costs, and...

Nov 2, 2025

How many people did California lose or gain between April 1 2020 and 2023?

California’s population trajectory between the 2020 Census (April 1, 2020) and calendar year 2023 is contested because different official estimates and media accounts highlight opposite short-term mov...

Oct 31, 2025

How much did California's population change between the 2020 census and 2023?

California’s population increased between the 2020 decennial census and 2023, with state estimates showing a net gain of about and a 2023 year-end population around ; this marked the first annual incr...

Dec 20, 2025

What was California's net domestic migration between 2020 and 2024?

California experienced substantial net domestic outmigration during the 2020–2024 period, with multiple official and journalistic sources estimating aggregate losses on the order of hundreds of thousa...

Oct 31, 2025

What is the U.S. Census Bureau population estimate for California in 2024 and 2025?

The U.S. Census Bureau’s publicly referenced releases in the supplied materials do not include an explicit statewide population estimate for California for ; the Bureau’s most recent completed vintage...

Dec 12, 2025

What were the key demographic changes in California from the 2020 census?

California’s 2020 decennial count recorded 39,538,223 residents, a 6.1% increase since 2010 — substantially slower than the prior decade — and the state’s racial and ethnic mix shifted markedly with r...

Dec 6, 2025

states paid 8.88 billion dollars on average to support illegal aliens

Claims that "states paid $8.88 billion on average to support illegal aliens" do not appear verbatim in the available reporting; CBO estimated more than $16.2 billion in Medicaid emergency spending for...

Nov 23, 2025

How has the change in California port revenues affected state revenue?

California’s ports are presented in recent reporting and industry studies as a major fiscal engine—one estimate puts waterborne trade through California ports at $416 billion in 2020 and attributes ro...

Oct 26, 2025

What were the key demographic changes in California between 2020 and 2024?

California shifted from population loss to modest growth between 2020 and 2024, driven primarily by , even as domestic out-migration remained large. Concurrently the state experienced , with older coh...

Oct 24, 2025

cost of ca special 2025 election

The most reliable contemporaneous estimate for the is roughly , a figure the California Department of Finance provided and that multiple news outlets report as the state’s expected outlay for the Prop...

Oct 8, 2025

What are the potential cost savings for California residents under AB 495?

California’s available documents in this packet do not provide usable estimates of ; none of the supplied analyses directly evaluate AB 495’s fiscal impacts. The materials instead discuss other bills ...