GDP · 2025
5.21
trillion yuanBeijing Statistics ↗
Municipality-wide GDP
Cities · China in Figures
Beijing in figures
China’s capital explained through municipality-wide statistics, service-sector scale and the digital economy.
Resident population · 2025
21.8
million peopleBeijing Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population
Administrative area · 2025
16,410.5
sq kmBeijing Government ↗
Administrative territory, not built-up area
City profile
Economy, population and urban systems
Each value keeps its own unit. Indexed bars provide a visual summary only and are not direct unit comparisons.
Source: Beijing Statistics ↗ · Beijing Government ↗ · Beijing 2025 statistical bulletin and official administrative overview.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
88.3 percentBeijing Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
Digital economy
2.42 trillion yuanBeijing Statistics ↗
Current-price value added in 2025.
Services share
86 percentBeijing Statistics ↗
Tertiary industry share of GDP.
Population
Which Beijing?
The 21.80 million figure is year-end resident population across the entire municipality. It is not the population of the continuously built-up central city.
Area
Administrative territory
Beijing’s 16,410.54 square kilometres include dense urban districts, suburban new towns, mountains and rural territory.
Economy and systems
A city in context
Beijing’s GDP reached 5.21 trillion yuan in 2025. Services accounted for 86.0 percent, while the digital economy contributed 2.42 trillion yuan. The municipality’s scale and polycentric structure mean transport and density statistics should always retain their administrative scope.
International scale check
Compared with Dallas–Fort Worth
Selected for similar economic scale: Dallas–Fort Worth, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
MSA GDP (~US$745B, 2023) nearly matches Beijing’s municipality GDP after USD conversion (~US$747B).
Beijing is a province-level municipality with a large administrative footprint; DFW is a multi-county MSA. Do not read this as a downtown-to-downtown comparison.
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Beijing
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Dallas–Fort Worth
Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington MSA
| Metric | Beijing | Dallas–Fort Worth |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 5.21trillion yuan≈ US$747B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Beijing Statistics ↗ | 745US$ billionBEA metro GDP (via Wikipedia list) ↗ |
| Population | 21.8million peopleBeijing Statistics ↗ | 8.1million peopleU.S. Census Bureau MSA estimate ↗ |
| Area | 16,411sq kmBeijing Government ↗ | 24,059sq kmU.S. Census Bureau gazetteer (MSA land area) ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 1,328people / sq km | 337people / sq km |
Used only to place Chinese municipality GDP beside peer metro GDP in USD. Not PPP, not constant-price, and not an official exchange-rate series.
Same administrative boundary
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