GDP · 2025
0.8
trillion yuanChangchun GDP accounting result ↗
Municipality-wide GDP.
Cities · China in Figures
Changchun in figures
Jilin’s capital and a major northeast centre for automobiles, rail equipment, agricultural processing, optics and higher education.
Resident population · 2025
9.11
million peopleChangchun Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population across the stated municipal statistical scope.
Administrative area · 2024
24,744
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: Changchun Statistics ↗ · Changchun area source ↗ · Changchun GDP accounting result ↗ · Official Changchun statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
69.15 percentChangchun Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
GDP per resident
87,925 yuan per personChangchun GDP-per-resident inputs ↗
Derived from same-year official GDP and year-end resident population.
Services share
58.8 percentChangchun GDP accounting result ↗
Derived from official 2025 tertiary value added and GDP.
Population
Which Changchun?
Resident population covers the full municipal administrative territory, including Gongzhuling and outer county-level areas.
Area
Administrative territory
The official overview gives a municipal area of 24,744 sq km; this is much larger than the continuously built-up urban footprint.
Economy and systems
A city in context
GDP and the three-industry components use the official 2025 unified accounting result; population and income use the 2025 statistical communique. Changchun is a major northeast rail, aviation and industrial-logistics hub.
International scale check
Compared with Oklahoma City
Selected for similar economic scale: Oklahoma City, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$100B, 2023) is close to Changchun's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$115B).
Changchun is a broad sub-provincial municipality with county-level areas; Oklahoma City uses a multi-county MSA boundary. GDP proximity is a scale reference only.
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Changchun
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City MSA
| Metric | Changchun | Oklahoma City |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 0.8trillion yuan≈ US$115B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Changchun GDP accounting result ↗ | 100US$ billionU.S. BEA metro GDP via FRED, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 9.11million peopleChangchun Statistics ↗ | 1.43million peopleU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population ↗ |
| Area | 24,744sq kmChangchun area source ↗ | 14,275sq kmU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 368people / sq km | 100people / 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.